Newsletter Archive
May 26 Too Much: All Hail Piketty, But Props for Pickett, Too
A bold new egalitarian take on our modern economy from France joins a powerful rendering of inequality’s toll — on our daily lives — from the UK. Blend the two into our politics and watch plutocracy start shaking.
May 19 Too Much: How Campus Chiefs Ace Executive Pay Excess 101
The fiercer that major state universities squeeze faculty and students, a new study shows, the grander the rewards their presidents reap.
May 12 Too Much: Humming a Happy Hedge Fund Tune
The latest annual hedge fund industry pay stats have suits smiling — and ordinary mortals worrying about public education’s future.
May 5 Too Much: Innovative Lawmakers Turn the ‘Tax and Spend’ Tables
Could the classic conservative put-down of progressive policy become a strategic template for attacking over-the-top CEO pay? Innovative state lawmakers in California and Rhode Island are aiming to find out.
April 28 Too Much: The Big Tip America’s Servers Never See
The CEOs of America’s 20 largest restaurant chains must be providing diners some mighty fine service. Their ‘performance’ is costing Uncle Sam nearly a quarter-billion dollars a year.
April 21 Too Much: Chicken Little and Inequality
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be able to demonstrate the link between inequality and catastrophic environmental change. But a little help from rocket scientists can certainly help.
April 14 Too Much: A Grand Unified Theory of Everything
Pundits and political scientists are always searching for that simple theory that’ll explain just what makes our politics tick. Where should they be looking? How about in the eyes of a billionaire at tax time?
April 7 Too Much: Fast Fortunes on the Diamond and Beyond
Baseball’s top hitter and Wall Street power suits both ply their trades in a high-speed world. That hitter will make over a quarter-billion in the next decade. The top suits stand to ‘earn’ astonishingly more.
March 31 Too Much: A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
The chase after the global super rich is leaving the world’s choicest cities nastier places to live for anyone without a grand fortune.
March 24 Too Much: Our Last Throwback to Plutocracy 1.0
Heiress Bunny Mellon didn’t promise us a rose garden. She gave us one. We would have been better off with more equality instead.
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