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America’s Greediest: The 2011 Top Ten Edition

By Sam Pizzigati
December 11, 2011

One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond.

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The New Forbes 400 — and Their $1.5 Trillion

By Sam Pizzigati
September 26, 2011

How swell a year have America’s 400 richest enjoyed over the past 12 months? This good: Google billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page each saw their personal fortunes jump by $1.7 billion over the year — and each have slipped five slots in the just-published latest edition of the Forbes 400.

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The Global Debt? Give the Big Boys the Bill

By Sam Pizzigati
June 25, 2011

The world's ultra rich, those 103,000 deep pockets with at least $30 million to invest, could afford to pay off the entire national debt of the world's biggest deadbeat nations without having to sacrifice a single Rolls or Bentley.

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Budget Battle: Who Is Our Country FOR?

By Dave Johnson
April 7, 2011

Who is our country for? Is this a country for We, the People, where all of us are banded together to protect and empower each other, together? Or is this a country where a powerful few reap all the benefits, and the rest of us are little more than "the help?" That is what the coming budget/deficit/debt/shutdown battles are about. more »

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Tax Tricks

By Dave Johnson
April 15, 2010

How many ways can people be tricked about taxes? Here are a few tricks I have come across.
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For the World's Wealthy, A Setback Most Slight

By Sam Pizzigati
June 28, 2009

The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world's wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever.

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Have You 'Hurd'? Greed Still Living Large

By Sam Pizzigati
January 26, 2009

We all know about the greed and grasping at Wall Street's failed giants. But the greed at 'successful' companies elsewhere in America is getting a free pass.

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Myopic Selfishness of the Wealthy Leads to Constricting Economy

By Gordon Johnson
September 3, 2008

The economic stance in favor today is to give breaks to the wealthy under the expectation that if they have more money, they are more likely to be in a position to invest to make our means of production bigger and better. What the stance is missing is that corporations do lots of marketing studies to figure out how much of what to produce. Guess what the marketing studies look at? more »

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