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.
As the big bank bonus grab shifts into overdrive, doing "God's work" has never seemed so lucrative.
Posted on Nov 17, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
We don’t want our tax dollars aiding companies that increase social inequalities. So why do we let our tax dollars help companies that increase economic inequality?
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, Source: Dollars and Sense
Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.
Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
As the activities of many are beginning to illustrate, conquering economic inequality means banding together.
Posted on Oct 13, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.
Posted on Oct 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth.
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Outrageously large rewards for executives give executives an incentive to behave outrageously -- and engage in behaviors that put the rest of us at risk.
Posted on Sep 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.
Posted on Aug 18, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: AlterNet
Hedge fund manager earnings remain, despite the global financial collapse, at absolutely stratospheric levels.
Posted on Apr 4, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: AlterNet
Have billionaires, as some observers claim, now 'suffered' their way back to the rest of us? Nope.
Posted on Mar 20, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
They're paying far less of their incomes in taxes than average Americans.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009, Source: Christian Science Monitor
Yet again, the latest sports scandal demonstrates the perils of inequality.
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Last week, a Labor Party "white paper" offered a surprisingly novel -- and rather remarkable -- proposal.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Some CEOs are taking pay cuts. But here's why it's really faux sympathy for truly struggling workers.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The economic meltdown may finally have ended the era that began when Ronald Reagan became President.
Posted on Jan 7, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
For obvious reasons, we probably couldn't have picked a better year than 2008 to "honor" our most avaricious.
Posted on Dec 23, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Lawmakers still haven't recognized danger of concentrated wealth to the economy.
Posted on Nov 17, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Upward wealth redistribution has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of average Americans.
Posted on Nov 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
America's tax cheats come disproportionately and overwhelmingly from the ranks of America's rich.
Posted on Oct 29, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The "polluter pays" principle works in the environmental realm -- we can apply it to the financial meltdown too.
Posted on Oct 16, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The bailout does precious little to limit the extravagant pay that gives top executives the incentive to behave outrageously.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: AlterNet
America's overpaid corporate execs have plenty of people to thank for their good fortune, including average American taxpayers.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Politicians can't seem to see any wealthy people when deciding whom to tax.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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