There’s one idea that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a result, the rich should pay more in taxes.
Mitt Romney has positioned himself as a defender of the hardworking job creators who have been rightfully well-rewarded for their efforts -- wealthy people that lefties deride as undeserving nepotism cases who think they're better than you.
Sitting in what appears to be a Syracuse Orangemen-themed studio at Davos, Reuters' Chrystia Freeland teased some pretty fun quotes out of George Soros on Wednesday.
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