by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 30, 2009 | Blog
By every measure that matters, The Spirit Level helps us understand, relatively equal nations far outperform nations where income and wealth concentrate at the top. Many of us have read, over the past 12 months, a variety of books that address America's vast economic...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 20, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Who deserves to sit on this year's list of our most avaricious? We could pick ten eminently deserving greedy straight from any big bank on Wall Street. But why spoil all the fun? Has picking a year’s greediest “top ten” ever been easier? We don't...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 13, 2009 | Blog, Economy
AOL and Time Warner split, Comcast and NBC join. The merger merry-go-round continues to spin. Investment bankers and corporate execs get the brass ring. The rest of us get pink slips and higher prices. What may be the dumbest corporate merger of all time — the...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 6, 2009 | Blog
The U.S. House of Reps has voted to extend the only federal tax levy on grand accumulations of private wealth. But that extension essentially keeps in place all of George W.'s tax rate cuts on billionaire bequests. Congress flipped another page in the estate tax story...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 29, 2009 | Blog
But Wall Street's mainstream critics still can't bring themselves to challenge the top executive 'right' to reap enormous riches. Great minds have been searching, ever since last fall’s financial sector meltdown, for an antidote to the wildly excessive Wall...
