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Jan D Weir

How Conservatives Got Foothold in the Democratic Party

And when the United States deregulated airlines and the world adopted new trade rules in the 1970s, few could imagine the all-encompassing…

3d ago

How Conservatives Got Foothold in the Democratic Party

3d ago

How Prominent Democrats Helped Turn the Party from a Party of the People to a Party of the Upper…

“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks,” said Paul Samuelson…

Oct 28

How Prominent Democrats Helped Turn the Party from a Party of the People to a Party of the Upper…

Oct 28

Right-Wing Economists Have Taken Over the Democratic Party — How?: Part 1

“The New Deal is now undisguised state socialism”

Oct 14

Right-Wing Economists Have Taken Over the Democratic Party — How?: Part 1

Oct 14

America Was Great When Taxes Were High on Corporate Executives — What Happened? Part II

“Trump’s Big Ugly Law Steals from the Poor to Give to the Ultra-Rich.” -Democrat House Budget Committee, August 11, 2025

Oct 7

America Was Great When Taxes Were High on Corporate Executives — What Happened? Part II

Oct 7

America Was Great When Taxes Were High on Corporate Executives — What Happened? Part I

“The big lesson is that the period of maximum prosperity of the U.S. economy in the middle of the century was a period where you had a top…

Sep 30

America Was Great When Taxes Were High on Corporate Executives — What Happened? Part I

Sep 30

Indefensible Tax Breaks for the Rich

“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult for them to understand why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”…

Sep 16

Indefensible Tax Breaks for the Rich

Sep 16

How Hedge Funds and Private Equity Owe Their Success to Looting Worker Pensions, Not Brilliant…

“Some private equity firms have honed Chapter 11 as an efficient financial engineering tool for insider sales — and for dumping pensions.”

Sep 9

How Hedge Funds and Private Equity Owe Their Success to Looting Worker Pensions, Not Brilliant…

Sep 9

Trump Just Gave Job Killing Private Equity a Huge Boost

“Private equity — more secret than the mafia.”

Sep 2

Trump Just Gave Job Killing Private Equity a Huge Boost

Sep 2

The Tragedy of Sear: How Hedge Funds Profit from Bankruptcy

“Attention is directed to enriching the management, buyout partners and their institutional backers. That is the nature of the game. To…

Aug 19

The Tragedy of Sear: How Hedge Funds Profit from Bankruptcy

Aug 19

The New Market Crash Billionaire Maker: The Hedge Fund

“The situation has become so absurd that four hedge fund managers on Wall Street make more money in a single year than every kindergarten…

Aug 13

The New Market Crash Billionaire Maker: The Hedge Fund

Aug 13

Jan D Weir

Jan D Weir

Lawyer, 50 years of experience. Taught law at the University of Toronto. Represented banks in $400M+ lawsuits, led class action benefitting 40,000+ pensioners.

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