by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
If we grow apart as we grow economically, three psychological researchers show in a landmark new study, we will never grow more happy. Why haven’t Americans become happier over the past 50 years? Economists have trouble with that question. America's average...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
One of the three 'serious' candidates for the 2012 Republican White House bid says the tax cuts for the rich he's proposing will expand America's 'entrepreneurial' class. What does history say? Last week, in a “major policy address,” GOP Presidential...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
Federal agencies are now preparing new regulations for enforcing the Dodd-Frank banker pay reforms enacted last summer. These new regs, says the AFL-CIO, need to prohibit the 'incentive' that's still stuffing bankers with billions. If you wear a power suit to work...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog
From a top financial analyst group, new evidence that the human race, as a whole, has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010 was a damn good year,” Monish Kumar, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 30, 2011 | Blog
The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you’re over 35 and your income hasn’t yet topped $200,000 a year, you don’t matter. The chain-smoking ad...
