by Kate Harveston What, exactly, does a CEO do? The answer is a little different for every company, but it seems self-explanatory that a good CEO needs to make sure their company has all the right pieces in place to be successful. CEOs also expect to be well-paid, and you can’t ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Mar 2, 2018

Barring a miracle, Bernie Sanders is not going to win the Democratic nomination. While this may seem like the end of the world for the legions of his supporters, to the contrary, it is actually the beginning of something much bigger.  I believe the trajectory of Bernie Sanders ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

This is not an endorsement, but a proclamation: Bernie Sanders is laying the foundation for a new Democrat that will change the party for the better. This past week, the Democratic Party witnessed political validation for one of its own as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

In David Brooks's latest column for the New York Time, he remarks on a recent speech by British prime minister David Cameron that appears to him to represents a modern, progressive conservatism he finds deeply appealing. In his piece, titled "What Republicans Should Say," ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Rather than protesting the use of trigger words and the lack of safe spaces with cuddly toys on campus, students at University College London are reminding the world what real student activism is about: the actual cost and ease of getting an education. Reported the Guardian: ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Today, the Huffington Post reported on a truly stunning fact -- a fact that should have the entire planet up in arms and threatening a global revolution. Based on statistics from Oxfam, the Huff Post reported that: "62 ultra-rich individuals -- a list that is primarily made up ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

What happens when you take a traditionally working class area with cheap housing, flood it with venture capital money in the form of high end housing, and market the hell out of it to aspiring home owners? If you guessed "rapidly rising property prices" and "pricing locals out ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

(Pictured above: Conservative Ian Duncan Smith, the architect of Britain's welfare reform) If you want a very good example of how destructive conservative economics can be, look no further than Great Britain and the huge economic revolution the Tory government has foisted upon ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

If you are thinking about moving to New YorkCity, don't. Unless you are a millionaire, have incredibly wealthy parents, or want to live a life trapped in never ending debt, New York City is not the place for you. With average real estate reaching a historic high, the average ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 18, 2016

Speaking to Gawker's Hamilton Nolan, venture capitalist, billionaire and civic activist Nick Hanauer dismissed the right wing theory that when wages go up, employment goes down. "My message is that the counterclaim," said Hanauer, who was one of the initial investors in Amazon, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

We are living in strange times. With a record number of billionaires joining the economy, a rising stock market and surging house prices, wealth is seemingly all around us. Acquiring it though is a distant dream for the vast majority of people in America and around the world. As ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Reason number 4,587,900 to never watch television again has come in the form of latest CBS reality show 'The Briefcase'. Billed as a show that, "features hard-working American families experiencing financial setbacks," the producers present the families with "a briefcase ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

I grew up in Clapham, south London in the 1980's, and have clear memories of what the city felt like. It was an intimidating, yet often warm and exciting city jammed with people of different color, religion and social class. When I was little, I went to an inner city state ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

When the rich begin to worry that poor people are too poor and that they might be too rich, it is probably a fairly good indicator that society is on the brink of big change. In an interview with Bloomberg today, notorious investor  Rob Arnott, chief executive and co-founder of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

There is a huge industry in America built on the myth that you can become infinitely wealthy and happy through the use of self empowerment techniques. At the helm of this gigantic money making scheme are characters like Robert Kiyosaki of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad book series, ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

Under President Obama, the rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty than ever before. Under this president, his policies have not worked. Their liberal policies are good every four years for a campaign, but they don’t get ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 22, 2016

Trigger warning: This article contains information that might cause minor existential crises. WorldPayZinc just realized a data visualization which shows just how much revenue and profit tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook make per second, and just like looking up ...read more

• By Bryce Rudow
  Feb 17, 2016

I’m one of the poor, lazy people New York Times columnist, and overly-privileged/perennially out of touch, champion for the oppressed moneyed interests, David Brooks, talked about in his recent column ‘The Inequality Problem’. Ben Cohen took Mr. Brooks to task for his ignorant, ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Feb 17, 2016