While all of us are splitting our attention between Ferguson protests and Thanksgiving planning, Congress is trying to pass a package of tax breaks that would cost $440 billion. It is worth getting angry about!

Administrators at New Jersey's Kean University have purchased a $219,000 conference table.

It would be illegal to open a shady lending company charging poor people 700% interest on loans—unless you lived on certain Indian reservations. In that case, respectable investors would be knocking down your door.

Whole Foods has just launched its first national advertising campaign, featuring the slogan "Values Matter." It emphasizes not just quality food, but also the company's "fair labor practices." How do Whole Foods employees feel on that point?

The business world is giddy and agog at the rip-roaring return of mergers and acquisitions. M&A is back! Just yesterday, two mega-deals worth $100 billion were announced. Some people are getting very, very rich. The deserving people, that is.

If you pay an individual or a big company to invest your money for you, you should be aware of the fact that there is an extremely convincing case that you are foolishly throwing your money into the garbage can.

ITEM: The Onion is for sale!

Ever since Thomas Piketty's coming out party, debate has raged in America over the implications of inequality of wealth and income. A new research paper shows just how much the extremely rich—the top tenth of the top 1%—have taken control since the 1980s.

As we prepare for the holiday season in which we reflect upon the past year and make plans for the year to come, let us all begin to feel the creeping sense of fear that comes with the confident expert prediction: Recession 2015.

We all know that money was the big winner in the midterm elections. But just how big? Big, big, big! Bigggggggg money!

There are many things wrong with the bloated, expensive American health care system. I would like to complain about one small part of it: the prices. It's not just that the prices are high. It's that... where the hell are the prices?

It is election day, when we celebrate the uniquely American system of democracy, in which every single dollar gets a vote.

There is a new U.N. report on climate change. Its warnings are very, very dire. It is time that the public comes to terms with the choice we face: keep fossil fuels in the ground, or face doom. Oil companies, like it or not, must be forced to change or be killed.

After too-easy mortgage lending brought the world economy to its knees in 2008, lots of people have been chewing over the question of how to make the housing market less prone to, you know, blowing up. One idea: 50% down payments.

The latest estimates of American life expectancy are out, and we're doing great! Living longer than ever. But—ooo—I hate to ask you this, but maybe, could you not do that, and instead die younger? We have these pension issues, see...

U.S. airlines posted more strong profits in the latest quarter, and say they expect the good earnings to continue for the foreseeable future, so it seems like a great time for them to install some human-sized seats in the motherfucking planes.

Climate change is causing rising oceans and more extreme weather. Even as beachfront development continues, beachfront living is growing ever more perilous. What happens when all the insurance companies decide to stop insuring anything by a beach?

Ever so slowly, a consensus that the minimum wage must be raised significantly is taking hold in America. But one group of workers could still be left behind: tipped workers, who, a new study says, are even more impoverished than minimum wage-earners.

Last week saw the stock market take its worst plunge in years, prompting fears that—after several years of uninterrupted good times—the economy may be ready to falter once again. Why the new fear on Wall Street? Could the reason be... imaginary bullshit?

Today in the theoretically infinite series, "Why it is expensive to be poor:" renting to own. Don't do it!