Too Much » Defective Enterprises http://toomuchonline.org Dedicated to the notion that our world would be considerably more caring, prosperous, and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap that divides our wealthy from everyone else. Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:04:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A Bold New Labor Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’ http://toomuchonline.org/a-bold-new-labor-call-for-a-maximum-wage/ http://toomuchonline.org/a-bold-new-labor-call-for-a-maximum-wage/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:29:52 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=4473 The national leader of one of America's feistiest unions is proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes at the bottom rise first.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/a-bold-new-labor-call-for-a-maximum-wage/feed/ 0 The Most Surprising ‘Nay on Pay’ Yet http://toomuchonline.org/the-most-surprising-nay-on-pay-yet/ http://toomuchonline.org/the-most-surprising-nay-on-pay-yet/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 00:34:06 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=4192 A perfectly respectable business panel is urging corporate boards to ditch the ridiculous rationalizations for CEO pay excess and narrow the gargantuan corporate pay gap. Step one: end CEO stock options.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/the-most-surprising-nay-on-pay-yet/feed/ 0 Remembering the Moment Our CEOs Dug In http://toomuchonline.org/remembering-the-powell-memo/ http://toomuchonline.org/remembering-the-powell-memo/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:37:39 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3309 Forty years ago, U.S. corporate honchos saw their power ebbing away — to a ragtag mob of long-hairs and loony social reformers. So they did what corporate honchos always do. They asked for a memo.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/remembering-the-powell-memo/feed/ 1 A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Better Watch Your Back http://toomuchonline.org/joe-the-machinist/ http://toomuchonline.org/joe-the-machinist/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:43:46 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3185 Corporate America, advises one of the nation's most prestigious management consulting companies, needs to wake up and stop rewarding employee loyalty and performance. With one exception.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/joe-the-machinist/feed/ 2 Our ‘Double Bubble’ of Economic Trouble http://toomuchonline.org/beyond-the-asset-bubble/ http://toomuchonline.org/beyond-the-asset-bubble/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:33:08 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=3105 'Asset bubbles' have been roiling our economy ever since America's wealthy started supersizing three decades ago. But another bubble, this one enveloping those wealthy, may be just as essential to understand.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/beyond-the-asset-bubble/feed/ 0 Peddling Poison for Fun and Profit http://toomuchonline.org/peddling-poison-for-fun-and-profit/ http://toomuchonline.org/peddling-poison-for-fun-and-profit/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:59:16 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=2474 Wall Streeters made fortunes, the new official report on America's 2008 economic meltdown charges, defrauding the American public. They're still making fortunes — and this official report is already sinking out of sight.

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/peddling-poison-for-fun-and-profit/feed/ 0 Recovery? Why Our CEOs Don’t Give a Hoot http://toomuchonline.org/why-ceos-dont-particularly-give-a-damn-about-recovery/ http://toomuchonline.org/why-ceos-dont-particularly-give-a-damn-about-recovery/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:46:08 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=2041 Over recent decades, recoveries from U.S. recessions have become steadily weaker and weaker. Over these same decades, executive pay has been steadily soaring. Could these two trends be somehow related?

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/why-ceos-dont-particularly-give-a-damn-about-recovery/feed/ 1 They Get Rich, We Get Ho-Hum Gadgets http://toomuchonline.org/they-get-rich-we-get-ho-hum-gadgets/ http://toomuchonline.org/they-get-rich-we-get-ho-hum-gadgets/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:24:24 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=1665 Our economy would become the world’s most innovative, our elites have assured us over the past 30 years, if we gave our rich enough incentives to innovate. We kept to our end of the bargain. So where’s the innovation?

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/they-get-rich-we-get-ho-hum-gadgets/feed/ 3 Wall Street’s ‘M&A Follies’: Why the Curtain Never Falls http://toomuchonline.org/wall-streets-ma-follies-why-the-curtain-never-falls/ http://toomuchonline.org/wall-streets-ma-follies-why-the-curtain-never-falls/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:20:50 +0000 admin http://zeitgeistagency.com/library/TooMuch/?p=18 AOL and Time Warner split, Comcast and NBC join. The merger merry-go-round continues to spin. Investment bankers and corporate execs get to grab the brass ring. The rest of us get pink slips and higher prices. By Sam Pizzigati What may be the dumbest corporate merger of all time — the $165 billion deal that [...]

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]]> http://toomuchonline.org/wall-streets-ma-follies-why-the-curtain-never-falls/feed/ 0 A-Rod and Inequality: A Lesson Worth Learning http://toomuchonline.org/a-rod-and-inequality-a-lesson-worth-learning/ http://toomuchonline.org/a-rod-and-inequality-a-lesson-worth-learning/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:06:21 +0000 Sam http://toomuchonline.org/?p=420 Huge rewards for 'talented' people are supposed to leave all our lives much better than before. But they don't — not in sports or any of the rest of life either.

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