by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 24, 2011 | Blog
Corporate America, advises one of the nation's most prestigious management consulting companies, needs to wake up and stop rewarding employee loyalty and performance. With one exception. You work hard. You do good work. You loyally stick with your employer through...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
A decade into a staggeringly unequal 21st century United States, historians have rediscovered a long-forgotten Revolutionary War hero who stirred men’s souls with a remarkably far-sighted egalitarian vision. George Washington. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Robert...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
The world's ultra rich, those 103,000 deep pockets with at least $30 million to invest, could afford to pay off the entire national debt of the world's biggest deadbeat nations without having to sacrifice a single Rolls or Bentley. Sober central bankers the world over...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy
'Asset bubbles' have been roiling our economy ever since America's wealthy started supersizing three decades ago. But another bubble, this one enveloping those wealthy, may be just as essential to understand. America’s corporations, the latest stats show, have been...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 19, 2011 | Blog
Amid fierce fiscal austerity, a borough in London is doing battle to level up the poor and level down the rich. Imagine if a borough in New York tried something as ambitious. In the United States and Britain, the developed world’s two most unequal major nations, you...