by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy
One of America’s top apologists for our billionaire status quo has a rather daring new approach to defending inequality. He’s claiming to be an egalitarian. And not just any egalitarian. Tyler Cowen, the director of a Koch brother-backed academic center, is claiming...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 24, 2014 | Economy
Narcissists don’t happen to be particularly nice people. They preen. They grab. And they never ever really feel our pain. Extremely self-centered people, some fascinating new business school research shows, also don’t make for particularly effective corporate CEOs....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 14, 2014 | Economy
Analysts at the OECD, the Paris-based economic research agency, have just shared a grim prediction: If current trends “prevail,” all developed nations will show by 2060 “the same level of inequality as currently experienced by the United States.” If we let those...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog
Almost everyone knows how Al Capone went down. We’ve seen the movies. The biggest and baddest gangster in American history extorted and murdered for years. But the feds could never convict him on anything, until the green eyeshade guys went to work. They finally...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The free market made us do it. Ask members of any American corporate board of directors why they pay their CEO so much and you’ll get some variation on this market-inevitability theme. To compete effectively in the world economy, Corporate America’s argument goes, we...
