If CEOs Earn 1,000 Times More Than Us, They Don’t Need Taxpayer Dollars
Companies practicing racial or gender inequality cannot receive government dollars. It’s time to do the same for economic inequality.
The Geopolitics of Cheap Oil
Economists said the market would save the planet. It didn’t.
A Fossil-Fueled Fantasy
Coal-burning power plants that capture carbon aren’t worth the expense.
We’re Not Broke
This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.
Rebuilding Resilience
We have to stop subsidizing people to live in harm’s way.
Fracking Liars
Supporters and leaders of the hydraulic fracturing industry aren’t being honest about government support for this new natural gas boom.
Avoiding a 21st-Century Dust Bowl
We need a Farm Bill that plants the seeds of resilience.
We Can’t Afford Energy Subsidies and Tax Breaks
Energy subsidies are obsolete, ineffective, and a huge waste of valuable public resources at a time when we are rummaging through the couch cushions to find loose change to pay for our ballooning deficits and debt.
Passing the Top Hat
Stop me before I make a killing again.
America Is Not Broke
How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.
Big Oil’s Free Ride
Instead of working for the American people, many lawmakers are shilling for Big Oil.
How Do International Trade and Investment Rules Affect Public Finance for Development?
Government efforts to finance job creation and other public goods can clash with subsidies restrictions in trade agreements.
Nuclear Power Rips off Taxpayers
Whether you support nuclear power or not, subsidizing and thereby artificially lessening the nuclear power industry’s financial risks is just plain fiscally irresponsible.
Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers
Washington’s ferocious ax-wielders are sparing assorted corporate subsidies.
SOTU: Parsing Obama’s ‘Clean Energy’ Promises
The sound of the president’s silence on climate change and the BP oil disaster was deafening.