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Dedicated
to the notion
that our world would be considerably more
caring, prosperous,
and democratic if we narrowed the vast gap
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- Behind Every Modern Successful Top Executive
- . . . you'll likely find worried workers, suggests billionaire Mark Cuban. Recent corporate history also suggests something else: cheated consumers. We look at America's top mega millionaire manufacturing machine, the financial industry.
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- Rich People and Thoroughbreds: A Deadly Embrace
- Concentrated wealth is killing the horse-racing industry — and horses, too. We explore the connection between inequality and the tragic fate of Eight Belles, the Kentucky Derby runner-up.
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- Campaign Consulting for Fun and Grand Fortune
- America's top Presidential campaign consultants are making millions off the political contributions of average Americans — and doing their best to keep their fellow millionaires happy. We have the details
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- John McCain’s Superstar CEO Apostle of Innovation
- Former Hewlett-Packard chief exec Carly Fiorina, the top voice on economic policy for the McCain campaign, doesn't represent everything that's wrong in Corporate America's executive suites. But she comes close. We explain.
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more from the Too Much archive . . .
- The dirt behind the hedges: a look at America's top income-earners . . . Barack Obama's go-to-guy on economics . . . The story of the New Deal's most unsung victory . . . How concentrated wealth is fouling higher education . . . Do Wall Street wheeler-dealers ever create jobs? . . . Subprimes, people of color, and power suits . . .A Harvard prof's call for a “maximum wage” . . . Why we need a campaign on “extreme inequality”: a PowerPoint presentation . . . Inequality and extinctions . . . War, taxes, and our awesomely affluent . . . Why
not tax the rich like Ike?
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Stat of the Week
Only 30 years ago, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace visiting scholar David Rothkopf noted last week, the world's richest nation had 88 times more wealth than the poorest. The current ratio: 270 times. The world's richest 1,100 people now have a net worth that almost doubles the wealth of the 2.5 billion poorest. |
Quote
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“If CEOs weren't allowed to make more than 20 times what their employees made, then any time the top management got a raise, so would the workers, which seems fair since management couldn't do it without their workers.”
Pat Robertson, Put a cap on greed, Jackson Citizen Patriot, May 9, 2008
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