Sam Pizzigati

Sam Pizzigati
Hometown: Kensington, MD
Interests: An Economy for All, inequality, wealth distribution
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  • May 20, 2012 - 4:30pm

    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.

  • May 13, 2012 - 5:11pm

    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.

  • May 6, 2012 - 5:25pm

    The rich see, the rich like, the rich refuse to take “no” for an answer. Welcome to the "super-prime" world of the footloose uber wealthy that business writers have begun to call the "stateless super rich." The rest of us get to gawk at the excess of this stateless rich — and foot the ultimate bill.

  • April 29, 2012 - 10:55am

    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.

  • April 22, 2012 - 11:11am

    Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How's that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you not ask.

  • April 17, 2012 - 1:30am

    ]Even rich people sooner or later have to drive over bridges. So why aren't the wealthy screaming about America's inadequate — and increasingly unsafe — basic infrastructure?

  • April 9, 2012 - 10:44am

    At what point will our world wake up to the fantastically rewarding scam that our hedge fund masters of the universe have been running?

  • March 29, 2012 - 5:31pm

    Behind this week’s record-smashing $2 billion-plus sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich

  • March 25, 2012 - 4:41pm

    We obsess over health care in the United States, because we all want to be healthy. In the process, new evidence suggests, we're ignoring the social dynamics that actually determine our health.

  • March 18, 2012 - 11:44am

    Austerity budgets are spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become more concentrated at the global economic summit than ever before. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax.