by Sam Pizzigati | May 21, 2012 | Blog
Facebook's initial public offering last week 'offered' the world another double dose of windfalls and greed. But Egypt's elections this week may bring an IPO of a different sort, the 'initial public offering' of an antidote to avarice. Remember the heady days of the...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 13, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
A string of surprising 'say on pay' votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms. But that 'revolution' won't amount to much until mainstream CEO pay reformers start factoring worker pay into the corporate compensation...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 6, 2012 | Blog
From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot the ultimate bill. Back in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, a short story took the American...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality. A brick factory makes 10,000 bricks a day. But then the factory happens on a...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 22, 2012 | Blog
Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How's that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you not ask. Every once in a while, our plutocrats drop all democratic pretense and...
