Sam Pizzigati

The White House pay czar isn't reforming Wall Street. He's cutting deals with it. We need to understand the difference.

Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it.

In a new network of 'Common Security Clubs,' activists are stitching together a challenge to Tea-Bagger rage — and the staggering inequality that breeds it.

An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America's super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice.

A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality.

Hard times, a rash of new media reports now assures us, are significantly narrowing the gap between the rich and everybody else. So why are so many super rich still smiling?

All the big banks in the Netherlands, pressed on by the Dutch finance minister, have agreed on a serious plan to restrain banker bonuses. And now the Dutch want the rest of the world to sign on.

Top execs in high finance, says the Institute for Policy Studies, have turned hard times — for the American people — into a springboard for still another round of huge pay windfalls. Is the CEO pay bubble now beyond popping?

The White House pay czar isn't reforming Wall Street. He's cutting deals with it. We need to understand the difference.

Can excess on Wall Street ever be ended? Maybe. Some lawmakers in France have a plan that could end it.

In a new network of 'Common Security Clubs,' activists are stitching together a challenge to Tea-Bagger rage — and the staggering inequality that breeds it.

An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America's super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice.

A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality.

Hard times, a rash of new media reports now assures us, are significantly narrowing the gap between the rich and everybody else. So why are so many super rich still smiling?

All the big banks in the Netherlands, pressed on by the Dutch finance minister, have agreed on a serious plan to restrain banker bonuses. And now the Dutch want the rest of the world to sign on.

Top execs in high finance, says the Institute for Policy Studies, have turned hard times — for the American people — into a springboard for still another round of huge pay windfalls. Is the CEO pay bubble now beyond popping?