Art Levine, AlterNet. July 10, 2009. The fund "thought they could refuse to bargain with us ... break the law, tear up our contract ... and break the union."
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 23, 2008. For obvious reasons, we probably couldn't have picked a better year than 2008 to "honor" our most avaricious.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. December 15, 2008. One ponzi scheme after another is exposed on Wall Street, and so far all we've heard is: "Who could have known?"
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 17, 2008. Lawmakers still haven't recognized danger of concentrated wealth to the economy.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 26, 2008. The hedge fund industry's ever-widening crash is likely going to leave average Americans the hardest hit. Here's why.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. June 10, 2008. Looking for villains around the gas pump? Look at the super-rich making bets with billions while regular people always lose.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. May 13, 2008. Hedge funds exploited the misfortunes of those caught beneath currency, housing and internet bubbles, and got paid by the boatload.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. April 24, 2008. The sums they’re raking in would have been impossible to believe even just half a dozen years ago.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. October 26, 2007. If our government really is a corporation and Bush is its CEO, we're all likely to be self-employed contractors out of a job.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. August 22, 2007. How "reputable" financial firms are using an arsenal of tricks to extract high payments from homeowners, drain their equity and steal their homes.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 26, 2007. Hedge funds have helped create a counterfeit economy that some experts say could lead to another full-blown economic depression.
