Articles by Sam Pizzigati:


Surfing in Style through the Great Recession

A host of CEOs have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs.

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In the Tax Debate: A Blast of Fresh New Air

‘Soak the rich,’ after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in ‘respectable’ media circles.

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Why Almost Anybody Can Be a CEO

The takeaway from the latest top gun flame-out at Hewlett-Packard: Chief executive “success,” in America today, essentially demands no more than greed and a developmentally arrested ego.

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Should Vanity Candidacies Have Us Worried?

A new study says super-rich candidates who personally bankroll their own campaigns almost always lose. But that, unfortunately, doesn’t make the rest of us winners.

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America’s Top Incomes: Down But Certainly Not Out

New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation’s top high-income tracker isn’t celebrating. And neither should we.

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