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Facebook and Tahrir Square, Revisited

Sam — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:14:04 +0000

Facebook's initial public offering last week 'offered' the world another double dose of windfalls and greed. But Egypt's elections this week may bring an IPO of a different sort, the 'initial public offering' of an antidote to avarice. Read more . . .

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Greed at a Glance

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:18:16 +0000

Crime fiction takes on inequality in Greece . . . A national health service or a national wealth service? . . . How about a $4.5 million renovation job for a single CEO suite?

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Stat of the Week

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:16:46 +0000

Something to occupy your mind next time you’re filling up your gas tank: Last year’s highest-paid CEO, new data from GMI Ratings show, appears to have been ConocoPhillips CEO J. J. Mulva. His total compensation: $154.7 million.

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Quote of the Week

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:00:46 +0000

“Dramatically higher tax rates on the top 1 percent would produce enormous revenues, improve the distribution of income, and most likely lead to greater economic growth.”
Alicia Munnell, director, Boston College Center for Retirement Research, High Tax Rates for the Wealthy, SmartMoney, May 18, 2012

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May 14, 2012 Too Much Weekly: Our ‘Shareholder Spring’

Sam — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:11:57 +0000

A string of surprising 'say on pay' votes has some executive pay critics sensing an impending revolution in corporate boardrooms . . . An epidemiological stopwatch on inequality . . . America's softly taxed wealthy.

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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.

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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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