The pope, Obama and a former banker walk into a slum: does the 1% still win? | Chris Arnade | Comment is free | theguardian.com:
"The sharing-the-winnings part never happens. It certainly didn't happen prior to the crisis, and it didn't happen even as the American economy collapsed. The winners kept using their new wealth to further empower themselves. They did this by flooding the political system with money to stack the deck. Rather than invest in job-friendly projects, they moved production to places with the cheapest labor and the fewest regulations.
When you bend the rules to favor the wealthy, they never give back."
"A federal appeals court on Friday allowed construction to continue on
President Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom until June, just a day
after a federal judge halted progress."
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NBC News reports.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post has just come out with an "analysis" of the
quantity of Trump's "fixation" on building the ballroom: "Trum...
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