by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 5, 2012 | Blog
In today's anything-goes political fundraising world, the nation’s super rich and their favored politicos are no longer even going through the motions of maintaining 'separate and independent' campaigns. The U.S. Supreme Court's most notorious decisions have almost...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 30, 2012 | Blog
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a 'few rotten apples' — and hoping the rest of us don't notice they're still holding billions in ill-gotten gains. . Remember Ina Drew? This past spring Drew had her 15 minutes of fame as the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog
All those official government stats on the maldistribution of wealth in the United States — and the world — vastly understate the actual extent of our contemporary inequality, says a blockbuster new study on global tax havens. Are America’s rich getting richer?...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 1, 2012 | Blog
America's revolutionary generation, new research documents, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today. Not too long ago, Americans only dressed up in George Washington...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 24, 2012 | Blog
Robin Hood would not be happy if he happened upon our incredibly top-heavy modern world. But the new campaign to levy a tax on speculative trading would most likely have him breaking out in smiles. The most lavishly paid bank CEO in America, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan...
