by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 10, 2014 | Economy
Exactly 25 years ago this week the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee conceptually “invented” the World Wide Web — and began a process that would rather rapidly make the online world an essential part of our daily lives. By 1995, 14 percent of Americans were...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 3, 2014 | Blog
The two cousins who run the private equity giant KKR, required disclosures revealed last week, together took home an astounding $327 million in 2013. Even more astounding: Analysts expect that the top execs at two of KKR’s biggest private equity rivals, Leon Black of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 26, 2014 | Economy, Progressive Vision
By Khalil Bendib for OtherWords Back in the early 1990s, the infancy of the Internet Age, our hippest policy wonks orated endlessly about the emerging “information superhighway.” But that mouthful of a moniker would soon fall out of fashion. Anyone today who talks...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 17, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
The long days for GM’s flacks began — on an upbeat note — back in December when the automaker’s board of directors named Mary Barra, a veteran General Motors executive, the company’s new CEO. That announcement made instant international headlines. A major global...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 13, 2014 | Economy
Finding true love, philosophers have always understood, can get complicated in deeply unequal places. Grand fortunes tend to give Cupid a hard time, on Valentine’s Day and every other. “If you gain fame, power, or wealth, you won’t have any trouble finding lovers,” as...
