by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 31, 2010 | Blog
Labor leaders at last week's Alpine assembling of global bankers and CEOs came with a simple pledge: We're going to fight to cap your pay. At Davos, the Swiss resort where global corporate and financial execs assemble every winter at a glittery “World Economic...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 24, 2010 | Blog
A relative handful of Americans, a key congressional panel forecasts, will take home more this year than half the nation's taxpayers combined. Americans worried about the ever-intensifying concentration of wealth at America’s economic summit have been focusing...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 17, 2010 | Blog
Would a stiff tax on banker bonuses blunt Wall Street profiteering — or let the vast majority of America's wealthy off the hook? “Wall Street,” the New York Times observed earlier this month, “is confronting a dilemma of riches: How to wrap its...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 10, 2010 | Blog
Congress may be gridlocked, but the Obama administration has the power, even without congressional action, to take on the CEO set — and the windfalls that are so enraging average Americans. A year ago, movers and shakers at the upper echelons of the Democratic Party...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 6, 2010 | Blog
By nearly every measure, average Americans lost ground in the “Aughts.” They’ve been losing ground — to the rich — for three full decades now. Will the 'Teens' make that four? Pawn shops always do well in recessions. CEOs of pawn shops, at least these days, do even...
