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Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks |
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by Thom Hartmann -- July 27, 2009 -- The Wall Street Journal reported last week that "Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the US... Highly paid employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the $6.4 trillion in total US pay in 2007, the latest figures available." (Full Article) |
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The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 |
by Robert Weissman -- Dec. 2008 -- We’ve never had a year like 2008. The financial crisis first gripping Wall Street and now spreading rapidly throughout the world is, in many ways, emblematic of the worst of the corporate-dominated political and economic system that we aim to expose with our annual 10 Worst list. Here is how. (Full Article)
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Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S. |
by Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus -- Sept. 10, 2008 -- An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy. (Full Article)
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by Jim Miles -- June 25, 2008 -- Superclass is a worthwhile read in order to better understand the mind set and intentions of the superclass elites. But remember the omissions, they are significant. If Rothkopf does not consider them significant, then he needs to tell us why they are not significant, especially considering all the political drizzle about freedom and democracy that seeps from the minds of the same elites. (Full Article) |
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Tax Day Gifts for the Rich |
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by Holly Sklar -- April 15, 2008 -- The richest 1 percent of Americans received about $491 billion in tax breaks between 2001 and 2008. Meanwhile, the federal budgets for environmental protection and housing for the elderly have been slashed more than 20 percent since 2001, adjusted for inflation, the Community Development Block Grant budget is down 32 percent, and the lack of health insurance is an epidemic. (Full Article) |
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Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think |
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by Robert Weissman -- Jan. 16, 2008 -- After hearing arguments for and against, 75 percent favor legislation that would significantly increase energy efficiency, including auto fuel efficiency standards, and the use of renewable energy. Also, those who think there is too little government regulation in the area of environmental protection outpaced those who think there is too much by a more than 2-to-1 margin (53 to 21 percent). (Full Article) |
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Inflation Index Manipulation: Theft By Statistics |
by Daniel Amerman, CFA -- Dec. 18, 2007 -- If the United States government was an individual or corporation, and we looked at the obligations it has entered into for the decades ahead – it would be bankrupt. (Full Article)
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Strategic Corporate Initiative - Toward a Global Movement to Bring Corporations Back Under Control |
Corporate Ethics International -- September 2007 -- Corporations have managed to obtain rights that in essence supersede those of individuals, communities, and even governments. This imbalance of power is a grave threat to democracy and the health of our planet. This will be one of the greatest challenges our society faces this century. (Full Report)
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If This Is Such a Rich Country, Why Are We Getting Squeezed? |
by Heather Boushey and Joshua Holland -- July 18, 2007 -- The commercial media is telling us two perfectly contradictory stories about the American economy. The first is how wonderfully rich we are in the United States. But, at the same time, we're also told that we don't have the money to pay for a robust social safety net. (Full Article)
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by Paul Street -- Feb. 10, 2007 -- The United States' wealthiest 1 percent now “receives between 19 and 21.5 percent of the [nation's] annual gross domestic product (GDP)...up from 8 percent in 1980.” (Full Article)
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by Lester Brown -- Dec. 16, 2006 -- For the Chinese, the manufacturing bonanza means record profits, rising incomes, and, in a society where people save some 40 percent of their income, a sharp jump in savings. In the United States, Christmas shopping expenditures, headed for another record high this year, contribute to rising credit card debt and a soaring trade deficit. (Full Article)
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Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half Global Wealth (Must Read) |
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WIDER -- Dec. 5, 2006 -- The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released today by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. (Full Article) |
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“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” John Schaar
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