by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 7, 2012 | Blog
Today's swaggering rich are increasingly stuffing their dollars into investments that do America's 99 percent not one whit of good. Your pop quiz for today: Define “art.” Wait, you don't need to panic here. You don’t need to go fumbling in the deep recesses of your...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us — bombshell new research shows — for their continuing awesome good tidings. Wall Street’s power suits aren’t humming along, this December, with all...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog, Economy
One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 27, 2011 | Blog
Today's super rich can't turn tin into gold. But they can get Uncle Sam to loan them free money. At the expense, of course, of America's bottom 99 percent. How much money is pouring into the pockets of America's richest 1 percent? How much of this income are America's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 20, 2011 | Blog
Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today's rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm's length — and more. How many neighborhoods have you ever seen with oodles of rich...
