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Mamdani Understands Neither Economics Nor New York City Aug. 19, 2025
Why do the world's poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrant... Read More
Sleazin' on a Jet Plane May. 16, 2025
When I was much younger than I am right now, I got a new job. I'd been out of work for a while befor... Read More
There's No Place Like Home Mar. 17, 2024
I didn't know how much I must have been hated as an apartment dweller. I lived in the same complex, ... Read More
A Tear-Jerker About the Housing Saga of Some Rich Jerks Aug. 24, 2022
Let's all gather 'round the campfire, buckaroos, and let Ol' Cactus Jim here tell you about some of ... Read More
Tax Cuts for Business? Corporate Price Gouging Contributes Mightily to Inflation May. 12, 2022
The approaching midterm elections are giving Republicans lots of opportunities to bash the Biden adm... Read More
The Inflation Blame Game May. 04, 2022
The problem with our so-called "free market" is that it's not free for you and me. It's largely cont... Read More
Tim Cook's Payday Feb. 19, 2022
The news that Apple CEO Tim Cook is looking at a payday of some $99 million has set tongues wagging,... Read More
Innovation Saves Lives Mar. 25, 2021
There was a testy Twitter exchange last week between Bernie Sanders, the socialist Democratic U.S. s... Read More
New Financial Survey on Black Americans Is a Call to Action Mar. 24, 2021
Dear Readers: In the last 15 years writing "Ask Carrie" columns, I've often written about why and ho... Read More
With Income Gaps Widening and the Virus Raging, It's Time To Talk Wealth Tax Dec. 22, 2020
Here's an interesting bit of coronavirus math: America's billionaires today could give $3,000 apiece... Read More
Time for Normal People to Take Back Our Country Jun. 05, 2020
Our country is hurting. Culturally, as a society and how we relate to each other, we are in the mids... Read More
A Dollar by Any Other Name Would Spend the Same May. 21, 2020
One of the new ways critics like to slice and dice rich people these days is to question the value t... Read More
How Do the Rich Become Uber-Rich? Jan. 22, 2020
As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues, "(T)hem that's got are them that gets/ And I ain... Read More
