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August 6, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Costly Megaphones
In today’s anything-goes political fundraising world, the nation’s super rich and their favored politicos are no longer even going through the motions of maintaining ‘separate and independent’ campaigns . . . A leading national expert on poverty changes his mind — about the rich!
July 30, 2012 Too Much Weekly: The Ultimate Clawback
The movers and shakers of scandal-ridden Wall Street are busy scapegoating a ‘few rotten apples’ — and hoping the rest of us don’t notice they’re still holding billions in ill-gotten gains . . . Under both Republican and Democratic Senate tax plans, the rich gain, in one case a lot, in the other a little.
July 23, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Offshore Shenanigans
All those official government stats on the maldistribution of wealth in the United States — and the world — vastly understate the actual extent of our contemporary inequality, says a landmark new study . . . Wealth taxes as an austerity alternative . . . The Walton wealth in context.
July 2, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Thinking 1776
America’s revolutionary generation, new research documents, lived in a society much more equal than our own. And early Americans prized that equality, an inconvenient reality for conservatives today . . . Tom Paine’s classic case for economic equality . . . Barclay’s then and now.
America's Greediest: The 2009 Top Ten
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?
Wall Street’s ‘M&A Follies’: Why the Curtain Never Falls
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 […]
Wall Street's Favorite Meltdown Myth Bites the Dust
But Wall Street’s mainstream critics still can’t bring themselves to challenge the top executive ‘right’ to reap enormous riches.
How Our Inequality Limits Our Lives
This American Library Association “outstanding title” of the year explores the price we pay for massive inequality. Now available for reading online.
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