by Sam Pizzigati | May 17, 2009 | Blog
Citi analysts spent two years obsessing over luxury consumption by the rich. Last week, the ultimate symbol of that consumption — the fine art bubble — finally popped. Back a year ago, not long after Bear Stearns bit the Wall Street dust, buyers and sellers at New...
by Terrance Heath | May 15, 2009 | Blog
Coming to terms with race and resolving racial disparity in America feels like an insurmountable, unfinished task, because it is unfinished. The work was started and abandoned, started and abandoned many times by generations before us. But it’s only...
by Tula Connell | May 15, 2009 | Blog
Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, desperate in their
by Sam Pizzigati | May 14, 2009 | Blog
Amid our world’s economic wreckage, today's New York Times marveled, at least one developed nation seems to be doing just fine. That nation — little Norway — actually grew economically last year. Norwegians today haven’t just sidestepped the...
by Terrance Heath | May 14, 2009 | Blog
As a parent, I'm familiar with the powerful effect that even the threat of a "change in policy" can have on behavior. It can bring troublesome, annoying, or even hazardous behavior to an abrupt end. That change in behavior suggests two things: that behavior could have...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 14, 2009 | Blog
The Senate is expected to vote either later today or Friday on a credit-card reform bill. As debate continues on that bill—and as President Obama ratchets up the pressure with a town hall meeting on the subject—a recent report by the Center for Responsible Lending...
