Wealth Concentration

A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving us. Thomas Campbell didn't have a...

Britain's top unions will soon be flexing their shareholder muscles -- and insisting that the corporations where their pension funds have investments start taking significant steps to narrow the pay...

Imagine you are a politician facing a tough reelection campaign. You sincerely believe in low taxes for corporations and investors. Your opponent wants to raise taxes on the rich in...

All across Corporate America, top execs are feathering their own nests at the expense of their employees. The French have a better idea. [caption id="attachment_5194" align="alignright" width="298"] The founder of...

Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected one of the central political questions of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5164" align="alignright" width="300"] An Occupy Wall Street...

The current European revolt against CEO greed, if successful, might leave Corporate Europe looking just like Corporate America — in the 1950s. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5142" align="alignright" width="182"] In...

Rising inequality is killing the dinosaurs - or at least what's left of them. Paleontologists report a boom in illicit dinosaur excavation and smuggling. The most recent case to hit the news was the...

Luxury fortresses. Armored cars. Helicopter commutes. The abominably unequal 'good life' may be closer than you think. Meanwhile, in South Africa . . . A dozen years ago, Brazil ranked...

If current trends continue, an individual trillion-dollar fortune in the United States will be surfacing within not much more than a generation.