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.
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
Contemporary CEOs can't lose, mainly because they take the bulk of their pay in stock.
Posted on May 22, 2008
Americans used to follow horse racing more fervently than all other sports save baseball and boxing.
Posted on May 13, 2008
How much higher can executive pay rise? Corporate shareholders may not have the patience to wait and see.
Posted on May 6, 2008
America's elite political consultants are making millions off the political contributions of average Americans.
Posted on Apr 30, 2008
The sums they’re raking in would have been impossible to believe even just half a dozen years ago.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008
It's becoming clearer that there are two economies -- one for the very rich and another for the rest of us.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008
She pushed down wages, and left town with a fat severance package.
Posted on Apr 10, 2008
"Policies that produce more egalitarian societies may explain profound health improvements."
Posted on Apr 3, 2008
Wall Street, analysts seem to agree, routinely flouted prudent business practices in the lead-up to the current economic meltdown.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008
Forbes' latest list of billionaires reveals a global concentration of wealth that has reached truly staggering proportions.
Posted on Mar 18, 2008
A self-described 'centrist' is minding Barack Obama's economic policy store.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008
Enormous accumulations of wealth are hitting New Yorkers where it really hurts -- at the deli counter.
Posted on Mar 5, 2008
Americans paid close attention to this year's Wisconsin primary. But for the best wisdom Wisconsin has to offer, we need to go back a hundred years.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008
George W. Bush’s enormously generous tax giveaways to America's wealthy will remain in place after he’s gone -- at everyone else's expense.
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
Throwing money at the nation's top colleges and universities perpetuates educational inequality.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008
A landmark new study scrutinizes the high-flying private equity industry -- and complicates life for our global greedy.
Posted on Jan 29, 2008
Is Washington hopelessly gridlocked? Not when the rich and powerful need help.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008
Mitt Romney's family history offers insights into America's recent past. But don't hold your breath waiting for Mitt to share it.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008
The gazillionaire behind the largest health care company in the U.S. discovered 'justice' a bit late in life.
Posted on Dec 20, 2007
Hedge fund speculators are making billions by the bushel. But, come politics time, the managers of these funds know better than to gamble.
Posted on Dec 11, 2007
Florida tomato pickers started a protest march last week at the Miami office of investment bank colossus Goldman Sachs. For good reason.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007
Shareholders are losing their shirts, families are losing their homes, financial industry workers are losing their jobs, but investment bank bonuses have never been higher. Can anyone explain why?
Posted on Nov 26, 2007
Scholars and activists gathered in North Carolina gathered recently to examine a series of political decisions that have privileged the powerful.
Posted on Nov 15, 2007
Amid the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, a Merrill Lynch CEO finds himself ushered out the door. Can we learn a lesson from his reckless rush to glory?
Posted on Nov 7, 2007
A powerful House Democrat has proposed higher taxes on America's richest. His ambitious tax reform package has hedge fund managers frowning. Should the rest of us be cheering?
Posted on Oct 29, 2007
A new novel envisions a near and fearsome future that just might scare America straight to a more equitable here and now.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007
Senate lawmakers have shelved plans to close the loophole that every year saves Corporate America’s richest wheelers and dealers billions of dollars in taxes.
Posted on Oct 15, 2007
A new business study on global household wealth documents how the world's wealth is continuing to concentrate in the pockets of the awesomely affluent.
Posted on Oct 8, 2007
The brief national strike against America's biggest automaker has a good bit to tell us about the gap that divides the awesomely affluent in the United States from everyone else.
Posted on Oct 2, 2007
One of the world's most honored public intellectuals, writing in a premiere policy journal, is calling for limits on income and fortunes.
Posted on Sep 13, 2007
Is the labor of corporate CEOs really hundreds of times more valuable than the labor of other leaders?
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
At a recent Qwest annual meeting, shareholders expressed anger over management's salaries and perks. Their frustration -- and management's rationalizations -- tell us a great deal about profits, power and the state of corporate America today.
Posted on Jun 2, 2007
The CEOs who sit on the powerful Business Roundtable are working to stop Congress from moving ahead with executive pay reform. The reason? It's all personal.
Posted on Apr 13, 2007
