Nina Easton
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Stop beating up the rich
Instead of taking them down, shouldn't we figure out how to lift everyone up?
By Nina Easton, senior editor
FORTUNE -- Alexis de Tocqueville famously chronicled American society's love of equality -- and its equally passionate pursuit of money. "The love of wealth," the French historian wrote in the 1840s, "is … at the bottom of all that the Americans do." America stands out among Western nations for its grudging, and MORE
Sep 6, 2012 5:00 AM ET -
A radical tax plan the left and right can agree on
The President, key conservatives, and even some of the nation's biggest corporations are leaning toward trading special breaks for lower rates.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- The economy coughs and sputters and threatens to stall out -- again. Growth slows; unemployment ticks back up to 8.3%. Congress shamelessly convenes a five-week recess, while the President camps out under the comforting applause of the campaign trail.
The absurdity of Washington's inaction MORE
Aug 29, 2012 5:00 AM ET -
America's new work ethic?
New welfare rules and booming disability insurance rolls reveal a bias toward aid checks over paychecks. By Nina Easton
Jul 30, 2012 12:23 PM ET -
The silent job killer: Our unemployment system
The unemployment benefits system was built on a combination of wishful thinking, generosity, and skimpy funding during good times. Today, it's likely impeding job growth.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- Hemingway Apparel, located in a rural former cotton town a hundred miles east of South Carolina's capitol, should be the kind of small business that government nurtures. In a county where the unemployment rate hovers near 12%, the factory MORE
Jul 19, 2012 9:56 AM ET -
Millionaire taxes hurt the masses, from Newark to Paris
Leaders around the world want the rich to keep giving. But when the wealthy get tired of getting tapped, guess who gets stuck with the tab?
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- When New Jersey governor Chris Christie heard British Prime Minister David Cameron invite France's wealthy to decamp to England to escape a proposed 75% tax rate, he felt something akin to déjà vu. Every day top executives of MORE
Jul 17, 2012 5:00 AM ETPosted in: canada, Chris Christie, David Cameron, François Hollande, France, Macro, millionaires, New Jersey, Nina Easton, taxes, the rich, United Kingdom -
What's really holding Arab women back?
Mohamed Morsi's election as Egypt's president has prompted widespread fears that women will lose whatever ground they had gained. What's in store for the future?
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- The name-brand polling company Gallup wants to upend Western perceptions of women's status in the Arab world with research concluding that conservative Islam is not what's preventing their economic gains. The problem, concludes Gallup's new poll, is a cultural byproduct MORE
Jul 10, 2012 11:47 AM ETPosted in: Nina Easton -
Don't blame the 1% for America's pay gap
It's time to end the myth that the nation's wealthy are getting rich off the backs of the poor. Instead let's figure out what they're doing right.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- What if I told you that there was a group of hard-driving workaholics who tend to have advanced degrees and bring a level of talent and skill to their jobs that attracts premium pay in the global MORE
Apr 24, 2012 5:00 AM ET -
Harvard biz alums have a job lesson for the U.S.
A new survey says graduates of the nation's top b-school aren't entirely optimistic, but they have some pretty solid ideas about how to get Americans back to work.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- 'Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country," President Obama dramatically implored business leaders in his State of the Union address, "and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed."
In MORE
Feb 15, 2012 5:00 AM ETPosted in: employment, Harvard Business School, job creation, jobs, Macro, Nina Easton, President Obama -
It's time for an honest tax debate
The discussion on tax reform has become too politically charged, pushing the facts to the background. The wealthy pay high taxes already, it's the super rich that need to pay more.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama reiterated his vision for a tax code in which the wealthy -- "people like me and an awful lot of members of Congress" MORE
Jan 25, 2012 12:25 PM ET -
Why the GOP should hike taxes on the super rich
If Republicans want to put the Democrats' "tax fairness" canard to rest, they ought to push for a tax hike on the 'super rich' -- but not on the rich.
By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- In the latest stop on his fairness crusade (a.k.a. the 2012 re-elect), President Obama yesterday touched down in Kansas to compare himself to Republican trust-buster Teddy Roosevelt -- the latest in a string of presidential self-comparisons that MORE
Dec 7, 2011 10:54 AM ETPosted in: Macro, Nina Easton
An award-winning author, columnist, and TV commentator, Nina Easton offers insights at the intersection of economics and politics. For six years she has been a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday and Special Report, and has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, and PBS's Washington Week in Review and Charlie Rose. Easton is the author of the critically acclaimed Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy. Prior to joining Fortune, she won a number of national awards as a Los Angeles Times writer, and later served as the Boston Globe's deputy bureau chief in Washington. She is a native Californian and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
