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A Profile: Too Much Editor Sam Pizzigati

Sam — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:56:06 +0000

A veteran labor journalist, Sam Pizzigati has written widely on economic inequality, in articles, books, and online, for both popular and scholarly readers. Currently an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C., Pizzigati has been editing Too Much ever since the publication’s 1995 debut. His op-eds and [...]

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Will CEOs Outlast Our ‘Shareholder Spring’?

Sam — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:09:03 +0000

A string of surprising 'say on pay' votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms. But that 'revolution' won't amount to much until mainstream CEO pay reformers start factoring worker pay into the corporate compensation equation. Read more . . .

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Greed at a Glance

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:18:16 +0000

Are America's rich getting too defensive about their good fortune? . . . A corporate risk-taker who would rather not take any risk -- with his own future . . . Serving the mega-millionaire couch potato market.

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Stat of the Week

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:16:46 +0000

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a fierce foe of tighter federal banking regs, acknowledged last week that “bad judgment” has just cost his bank $2 billion in trading losses. Dimon made $23.1 million in 2011. He’d have to work the next 86 years for free to save his bank that lost $2 billion.

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Quote of the Week

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:00:46 +0000

"A single mother holding down a job and putting herself through community college works just as hard as any hedge fund manager." William Deresiewicz, Fables of Wealth, New York Times, May 13, 2012

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May 7, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Wealthy People, Unite!

Sam — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:41:49 +0000

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot the ultimate bill . . . The billionaires' ball . . . Behind the mew French tax-the-rich push.

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Executive Pay Scorecard

admin — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:33:00 +0000

Top media outlets and business researchers annually release compensation surveys that detail executive pay levels over the preceding year. These surveys seldom sample the same corporations — or measure pay the exact same way — and, consequently, almost always generate somewhat different results. We sum up the latest top national and regional survey results here.

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Wealthy of the World, Unite — and Party!

Sam — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:58:36 +0000

From Manhattan to Monaco, the world's super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot the ultimate bill.

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April 30, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Our Unequal Gadgetopia

Sam — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:48:13 +0000

Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality . . . Why rising productivity in the United States has sparked so few celebrations . . . Taxing the poor!

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Gadgetopia: Chasing After an Elusive Dream

Sam — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:41:24 +0000

Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality.

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