Is Obama's Campaign Funding Killing Financial Reform?

If the media was licensed, the New York Times story, “After Fiscal Cliff Deal, Tax Code May Be the Most Progressive Since 1979,” would be grounds for disbarment. I flagged the piece as a Big Lie in comments yesterday, and figured that since anyone who was either old enough to have been paying taxes in the 1980s or had minimal Google skills could ascertain its claims were nonsense, that it would be debunked elsewhere.

By James Kwak

By Mike Konczal I remember when everything was back to "normal." It was when John Cassidy flagged, on his blog, Ken Chenault, the longtime CEO of American Express, getting paid $80 million dollars. How has American Express been doing the past few years? Here’s Cassidy:

"Though the American left and right don't agree on much," wrote Frank Rich over the weekend, "they are both now coalescing around the suspicion