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UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 11: Carl Icahn, a billionaire investor, speaks during the World Business Forum in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Icahn said he was concerned that stocks may be reaching a peak, as risks to the U.S. economy remain after the Federal Reserve's Sept. 18 rate cut. (Photo by Chip East/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Opinion: Social media serves as new manipulation tool for investors

By Jay Meyers
December 2, 2013
Anthony Alexandra Ayala, 3, stands with his mom, Anyi Barahona, left, who immigrated from Honduras nine years ago, and dad, Hector Rosales, right, who immigrated from Guatemala 13 years ago, during an immigration reform rally at the Court Square in Harrisonburg, Va., on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied nationwide Wednesday in a coordinated set of protests aimed at pressing Congress to approve immigration measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living here illegally a path toward citizenship. (AP Photo/The Daily News-Record, Jason Lenhart)

Opinion: Immigration reform provides economic merits

By Jay Meyers
November 26, 2013
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke listens while participating in a panel at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, on "The Crisis as a Classic Financial Panic." Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is drafting rules to close large insolvent banks without bringing down the broader financial system, one of many steps regulators must take to prevent another financial crisis. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Opinion: Federal officials see value in bitcoin despite flaws

By Jay Meyers
November 19, 2013
Louisiana Board of Regents Chairman W. Clinton Rasberry discusses a motion on Feb. 25, 2013, at a meeting in the Pennington Biomedical Research Conference Center.

Opinion: Students should base purchase behavior on Federal Reserve

By Jay Meyers
November 11, 2013
Opinion: Louisiana Town named most unequal place in America

Opinion: Louisiana Town named most unequal place in America

By Jay Meyers
November 4, 2013
Vitter

Opinion: Vitter is starting to prosecute the hungry

By Jay Meyers
October 31, 2013
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, speaks on stage during the introduction of the new iPhone 5s in Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Opinion: Louisiana should embrace globalization, not ignore it

By Jay Meyers
October 30, 2013
In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, a pedestrian walks past the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington on a rainy day. The national debt actually reached the limit in May 2013. Since then, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has made accounting moves to continue financing the government without further borrowing. But Lew says those measures will be exhausted by Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The government will then have to pay its bills from its cash on hand — an estimated $30 billion — and tax revenue. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Head to Head: Empirical grounds for deficit paranoia is baseless

By Jay Meyers
October 23, 2013
In this Oct. 16, 2013, photo, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walk to the Senate floor to vote on a bill to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government on Capitol Hill in Washington. The budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and tea party lawmakers who are upset that House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to the plan to reopen government without extracting any limits on President Barack Obama's health care law.(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Congress’ crisis-driven policy causing economic damage

By Jay Meyers
October 21, 2013
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, gestures as he talks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, in Washington. Leaders reached a last-minute agreement to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown. Cruz said he would not try to block the agreement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Debt ceiling, shutdown highlight Tea Party flaws

By Jay Meyers
October 16, 2013
In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Opinion: Silk Road Shutdown Demonstrates Failure of Free Markets

By Jay Meyers
October 9, 2013
Money Photo Illustration

Head to Head: Jointly sharing CEO and employee salaries not an effective way to show pay inequality

By Jay Meyers
September 25, 2013
Warren Buffet

Opinion: Students should focus on wealth education early

By Jay Meyers
September 19, 2013
In this Sept. 10, 2013, photo, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walks to a Republican strategy session at the Capitol, in Washington. A revolt by tea party conservatives forced House GOP leaders on Wednesday, Sept. 11, to delay a vote on a temporary spending bill required to prevent a government shutdown next month. The plan by top Republicans like Cantor is designed to keep government agencies running through Dec. 15. Cantor's office announced the delay. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Debt ceiling debate affects students’ bottom line

By Jay Meyers
September 17, 2013
Trina Grimes Scott and former Gov. Edwin Edwards met when she was his pen pal while he was in prison.

Opinion: Louisiana remains the most corrupt state

By Jay Meyers
September 12, 2013
In this Aug. 29, 2013, file photo, Christina Condori joins a crowd of fast-food workers and their supporters in protest, while picketing outside of a McDonald's restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. Thousands of fast-food workers and their supporters have been staging protests across the country to call attention to the struggles of living on or close to the federal minimum wage. The push raises the question of whether the economics of the fast-food industry allow room for a boost in pay for its workers.

Opinion: McDonald’s employes spark debate on raising inimum wage

By Jay Meyers
September 11, 2013
This photo combo shows Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, left, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Summers is the White House insider with a direct line to President Barack Obama. Yellen is the Federal Reserve veteran with a long list of congressional patrons. The two Ivy League trained economists have emerged as leading contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed, the nation’s central bank. Obama could announce his nominee in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion: Obama should tap Yellen for next Fed Chairman

By Jay Meyers
September 5, 2013
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during a rally for South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who announced her candidacy for a second term at the Bi-Lo Center, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, in Greenville, S.C. Supporting Gov. Haley were Perry, Bobby Jindal-La. and Scott Walker-Wis. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)

Opinion: New report highlights dismal picture for Louisiana’s education system

By Jay Meyers
August 29, 2013

Opinion: Vitter, Brown look to give simple fix for megabanks

By Jay Meyers
May 2, 2013
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff says higher inflation would help debtors by allowing them to pay back their debts with cheaper dollars.

Opinion: Errors in economist’s paper prove austerity a bad policy

By Jay Meyers
April 22, 2013
Anthony Alexandra Ayala, 3, stands with his mom, Anyi Barahona, left, who immigrated from Honduras nine years ago, and dad, Hector Rosales, right, who immigrated from Guatemala 13 years ago, during an immigration reform rally at the Court Square in Harrisonburg, Va., on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied nationwide Wednesday in a coordinated set of protests aimed at pressing Congress to approve immigration measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living here illegally a path toward citizenship. (AP Photo/The Daily News-Record, Jason Lenhart)

Opinion: Immigration reform will benefit U.S. economy

By Jay Meyers
April 14, 2013
Different strains of marijuana are displayed during the grand opening of the Seattle location of the Northwest Cannabis Market, for sales of medical marijuana products, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. The market hosts nine permanent vendors for seven-day-a-week sales, as well as daily vendors of a variety dried medicines, edible products and starts. Voters in Washington state last fall passed Initiative 502, which legalizes the recreational possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and calls for the creation of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores. Recreational marijuana sales are expected to begin late this year, and in the meantime, the stateís medical marijuana industry continues to operate. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Opinion: New study shows most Americans favor marijuana legalization

By Jay Meyers
April 11, 2013

Opinion: Jindal refusal to expand Medicaid will hurt employers

By Jay Meyers
March 21, 2013
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of the 2014 Budget Resolution as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion: Ryan Budget strips poor, middle class of vital programs

By Jay Meyers
March 13, 2013

Opinion: Increase in Racial Wealth Gap Reflects Ineffective Public Policies

By Jay Meyers
March 6, 2013
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal listens as National Governors Association Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, following their meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Opinion: Jindal plan will further increase Louisiana poverty

By Jay Meyers
February 27, 2013

Opinion: House bill designed to balance budget highlights more poilitcal posturing

By Jay Meyers
February 17, 2013
In this Wed. Dec. 5, 2012, photo, containers are unloaded from cargo ships at the Port of Los Angeles. The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank from October through December, the first quarterly drop since 2009 and a reminder of the economy's vulnerability as automatic cuts in government spending loom. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Opinion: Stimulus needed to combat unemployment, drop in growth

By Jay Meyers
February 4, 2013

Opinion: Donald Trump Looking to Buy N.Y. Times

By Jay Meyers
January 31, 2013

Opinion: Teaching creationism in La. high schools a denial of science

By Jay Meyers
January 24, 2013
FILE - In this June 6, 2012, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama had a clear political edge in his fight with Republicans over the fiscal cliff, and used it to his advantage. In the upcoming battle over federal borrowing and spending, the leverage will be more evenly divided and the outcome less predictable. In the fiscal cliff fight, Obama wanted to block automatic New Year's Day tax increases on everyone but the country's highest earners. Republicans were trying to protect upper-income people from those tax hikes, but eventually gave in because they didn't want to be blamed for the higher middle-class taxes that a stalemate would have triggered. Next come three deadlines that will almost certainly become entwined. The government will run out of cash in about two months and the Obama administration will need congressional approval to borrow more money or face a first-ever federal default, threatening global, economy-rattling consequences. Boehner and McConnell have said they won't agree to a debt-limit extension without an accord to cut spending. Just as adamantly, Obama says the government's debt ceiling must be raised and he won't negotiate over it, though he says he would bargain over spending cuts and tax increases to reduce federal deficits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Opinion: ‘Share the Wealth’ – Should a rise in the debt ceiling be tied to spending cuts?

By Jay Meyers
January 14, 2013
Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras arrives for a news conference in Athens, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Stournaras says a program whereby the country will buy back some of its bonds from private investors "must work" if the country's excessive debt load is to be reduced. The bond buyback is part of measures agreed on with European finance ministers earlier this week, including the release of Euro 44 billion ($57 billion) in critical rescue loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Opinion: Congress should focus on jobs, ditch tackling deficit

By Jay Meyers
November 28, 2012
A pro-statehood New Progressive Party supporter waves the U.S. flag during the party's closing campaign rally in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. Voters in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will go the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 6 to weigh in on whether to change the status of their relationship with the United States, the island's central political dilemma, or to leave it unchanged. The two-part referendum is intended to send a message to the U.S. government and resolve a 114-year-old conundrum. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Share the Wealth: Should Puerto Rico be admitted as the 51st U.S. state?

By Jay Meyers
November 13, 2012
In this Jan. 20, 2012 photo, people hold signs during a gathering on the anniversary of the Citizens United decision in Montpelier, Vt. First, it was the Vermont senator with socialist leanings. Then it was Jerry of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. Now there are about 50 Vermont communities ready to chime in on a proposal to pass a Constitutional amendment to clarify that corporations do not have the same rights as human beings., (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Citizens United decision inhibits democracy

By Jay Meyers
November 8, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets entrepreneur and TV personality Donald Trump on Feb. 2, 2012, during a news conference in Las Vegas, NV.

Share The Wealth: Should President Obama take Trump’s $5 million charity offer?

By Jay Meyers
October 29, 2012

Overdraft fees product of predatory bank practices

By Jay Meyers
October 25, 2012

Jobs data conspiracy equivalent to McCarthyism

By Jay Meyers
October 16, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Apopka, Fla. on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Romney tax plan not mathematically possible

By Jay Meyers
October 7, 2012

Obama, Romney don’t get globalization, outsourcing

By Jay Meyers
October 3, 2012
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at D’Evelyn High School in Denver, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Share the Wealth: Romney says half of America dependent on government

By Jay Meyers
September 24, 2012
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke makes his way past reporters on Capitol Hill after meeting privately with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and members of the committee about the looming economic crisis, often called the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Share the Wealth: Fed’s new efforts will stimulate economy, job market

By Jay Meyers
September 20, 2012