by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
Today marks the 100th anniversary of what may be the most ‘radical speech’ an American ex-President has ever delivered. The words of that former President, Theodore Roosevelt, still ring incredibly true today. By Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins Ex-Presidents almost...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 29, 2010 | Blog
'Soak the rich,' after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in 'respectable' media circles. At long last, we may be witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in how we, as a society, talk about taxing the rich. Until this summer,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 22, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive 'success,' in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego. The tall tales we’ve inherited from ages long gone we call myths. The tall...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 1, 2010 | Blog
A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn't make the rest of us winners. The ticker on billionaire Meg Whitman’s personal outlays for her California gubernatorial...