Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 13, 2009. As the activities of many are beginning to illustrate, conquering economic inequality means banding together.
Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. October 9, 2009. He's never taken food stamps or other government assistance, and despite what his lifestyle may lead you to believe, he's certainly not crazy.
Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. October 6, 2009. A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2009. Supposedly a tool for measuring financial autonomy, the Index of Economic Freedom does little more than usher in the same policies that caused our financial crisis.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. September 28, 2009. A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth.
Nomi Prins, Christopher Hayes, The Nation. September 26, 2009. The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. August 18, 2009. 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.
Joe Bageant, AlterNet. August 1, 2009. Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. July 25, 2009. The wealthiest 1-percent have deployed an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super rich to help pay for health care.
Christian Parenti, The Brooklyn Rail. July 18, 2009. Henwood, who publishes The Left Business Observer, discusses the global economic crisis with Christian Parenti.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 8, 2009. To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. We're dealing with a political elite that is more Clintonesque than Rooseveltesque. Will meaningful change be possible?
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. June 18, 2009. Summers and Geitner finally condemned the Wall Street shenanigans they once abetted. But will this mean any real change in Obama's policy?
Naomi Klein, AlterNet. June 13, 2009. There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. June 12, 2009. The government has to create larger deficits if the economy is to get anywhere near full capacity again.
Ellen Brown, AlterNet. May 27, 2009. Gov. Schwarzenegger thinks CA can only get credit from DC, but there's another way of doing it that the prosperous state of North Dakota figured out.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2009. I'm confused. Does the Obama administration think $100 million (or $165 million) is a lot of money or doesn't it?
Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009. The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009. If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
