by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
In just seven years, the top annual pay for hedge fund managers has jumped from just over $1 billion to just shy of five times that total. The hedge fund industry’s trade journal has just released its annual figures for hedge fund manager earnings. The big...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
If the wealth of the wealthy really bothered Americans, flacks for grand fortune enjoy declaring, our political system would be shaking something fierce. They don't see a whole lot of shaking. Should we? Apologists for inequality have an all-purpose defense for our...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 20, 2011 | Blog
The rising public clamor for higher taxes on America's wealthy has conservative ideologues increasingly uneasy. For good reason. They don't have the numbers on their side. Or much history either. A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 13, 2011 | Blog
Has Jim DeMint, the right-wing senator leading the assault on federal domestic spending, finally gone too far? His corporate executive benefactors may soon come to think so. Even hypocrites can sometimes have a point. Take Jim DeMint, for instance, the U.S. senator...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 6, 2011 | Blog
Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on 'overpaid' public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their faces. Somebody is getting rich off our tax dollars. That...
