Stories by Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati is the editor of the online weekly Too Much, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009
In a down economy, apologists for the awesomely affluent are having to dig deep for inspiration. In the process, they're looking dopey.
Posted on Jul 1, 2009
The Obama administration has watered down the rules on executive pay into mushy prescriptions that pose no real threat to the Big Boys' windfalls.
Posted on Jun 25, 2009
In 2005, a Citigroup team began arguing that what “average” consumers do with their money really doesn’t matter any more.
Posted on May 19, 2009
With Barack Obama's election, real reform has once again become politically viable. And America's anti-union business leaders know it.
Posted on Apr 27, 2009
Families in the top 1 percent are grabbing a rising share of the nation’s income -- why does the data show no jump in their share of the wealth?
Posted on Apr 20, 2009
Few Americans realize just how incredibly little our nation's wealthy now pay in taxes. Our grandparents seriously taxed the rich. Why can't we?
Posted on Apr 15, 2009
Hedge fund manager earnings remain, despite the global financial collapse, at absolutely stratospheric levels.
Posted on Apr 4, 2009
What would FDR do if he were around to see AIG's bonus bozos spit in the face of the American taxpayer?
Posted on Mar 23, 2009
Have billionaires, as some observers claim, now 'suffered' their way back to the rest of us? Nope.
Posted on Mar 20, 2009
Critics of Obama's tax plan claim the uber-rich will find a way to evade tax hikes. But history tells a different story.
Posted on Mar 10, 2009
They're paying far less of their incomes in taxes than average Americans.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009
Yet again, the latest sports scandal demonstrates the perils of inequality.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009
Our new White House has begun a counterattack against the grand divide between the rich and everyone else. It will be an uphill battle.
Posted on Feb 14, 2009
Last week, a Labor Party "white paper" offered a surprisingly novel -- and rather remarkable -- proposal.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009
Some CEOs are taking pay cuts. But here's why it's really faux sympathy for truly struggling workers.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009
In our staggeringly unequal times, the source of Rocky's distress can offer the rest of us some welcome public policy inspiration.
Posted on Jan 8, 2009
The economic meltdown may finally have ended the era that began when Ronald Reagan became President.
Posted on Jan 7, 2009
For obvious reasons, we probably couldn't have picked a better year than 2008 to "honor" our most avaricious.
Posted on Dec 23, 2008
Lawmakers still haven't recognized danger of concentrated wealth to the economy.
Posted on Nov 17, 2008
To govern effectively for the middle of America's economic ladder, Obama is going to have to take aim at the top.
Posted on Nov 13, 2008
Upward wealth redistribution has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of average Americans.
Posted on Nov 1, 2008
America's tax cheats come disproportionately and overwhelmingly from the ranks of America's rich.
Posted on Oct 29, 2008
The hedge fund industry's ever-widening crash is likely going to leave average Americans the hardest hit. Here's why.
Posted on Oct 26, 2008
The "polluter pays" principle works in the environmental realm -- we can apply it to the financial meltdown too.
Posted on Oct 16, 2008
To fix the U.S. economy, we don't need a bailout that rescues the rich. We need a bailout that soaks them.
Posted on Oct 8, 2008
The bailout does precious little to limit the extravagant pay that gives top executives the incentive to behave outrageously.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008
The candidate is proposing a radical restriction on pay for CEOs of bailed-out firms. But is he serious or is this just election season populism?
Posted on Sep 23, 2008
America's overpaid corporate execs have plenty of people to thank for their good fortune, including average American taxpayers.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008
The Democrats have, once again, chosen not to challenge the incredible concentrations of wealth that sit at America's economic summit.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008
Politicians can't seem to see any wealthy people when deciding whom to tax.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008
In the UK, conservatives don't have to take the blame -- inequality has soared over the last decade with the Labor Party running the show.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008
A debate between campaign economists on taxes shows a clear divide on tax policy between Obama and McCain for America's wealthiest.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008
Is banking merely a grubby game where the few enrich themselves at the expense of the many?
Posted on Jul 23, 2008
It's good to reward the best and the brightest, but when those rewards are too great they become incentives for bad, and dumb, behavior.
Posted on Jul 10, 2008
There was a day when the Chamber was more than an ideological organization.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008
Why this November's election may matter more to America's super-rich, in terms of the bottom-line, than any other in U.S. history.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
Yes, the administration lied repeatedly to get us into Iraq, but what about the spin campaign around the estate tax?
Posted on Jun 12, 2008
Looking for villains around the gas pump? Look at the super-rich making bets with billions while regular people always lose.
Posted on Jun 10, 2008
The Dutch are angry about over-the-top CEO pay, and they're not going to take it any more.
Posted on May 27, 2008
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