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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 19,2012
GOP presidential contenders’ goofy greed
Even though some are out and some are in, the politicians that are/were in the GOP presidential race still are spreading their goofiness around for all the country to see.Let’s start with my sta
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 12,2012
The cry of Congress: ‘Free Wall Street!’
Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people’s cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this tim
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 5,2012
The truth about the U.S. Postal Service
What does 50 cents buy these days? Not a cuppa joe, a pack of gum or a newspaper. But you can get a steal of deal for a 50-cent piece: a first-class stamp. Plus a nickel in change.Each day, six days a
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 29,2012
Banker hubris knows no bounds
Have you heard about the earthquake that has shaken Wall Street to its very core? Well, brace yourself, for this really is a shocker: Bonus payments are down.Yes, the exorbitant bonus checks pocketed
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 22,2012
Speaking truth about power
A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those rare citizens willing to risk their p
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 15,2012
Woody at 100
Where’s Woody when we need him? In these times of tinkle-down economics – with the money powers thinking that they’re the top dogs and that the rest of us are just a bunch of fire hy
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 8,2012
The Keystone XL flim-flam
For Rep. Allen West, the skyrocketing price of gasoline is not just a policy matter, it’s a personal pocketbook issue. The Florida tea-party Republican (who, of course, blames President Obama fo
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 1,2012
Cooperatives over corporations
We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation.This heav
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 23,2012
It’s official: Money now governs America
The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich.For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy en
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 16,2012
What’s in your iPhone?
Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire: “What would
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