A Tiny Step Toward Ending a CEO Scam
The SEC finally moves, ever so slightly, against wagers that reward CEOs when their companies fail.
Fleecing Uncle Sam
A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes.
Brownbag: Pacific Rim Mining Company vs. El Salvador
The Institute for Policy Studies joins the Center for International Environmental Law, and Oxfam to invite you to the D.C. community discussion on the amicus curiae brief in the Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador case.
A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership.
NEW REPORT: Executive Excess 2013, “Bailed Out, Booted, and Busted”
IPS releases 20-year review showing that nearly 40 percent of America’s top-paid CEOs are not so great at their jobs.
Corporate Tax Dodgers: 10 Companies and Their Tax Loopholes
A new report looks at 10 U.S. corporations that have used an array of tax loopholes and corporate subsidies to slash their tax bills: Bank of America, Citigroup, ExxonMobil, FedEx, General Electric, Honeywell, Merck, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Verizon.
New Report: The CEO Campaign to ‘Fix’ the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks
“The ‘Fix the Debt’ CEOs are trying to pass themselves off as noble leaders who are willing to compromise in order the save America from financial ruin,” says report co-author Scott Klinger. “In reality, the campaign is a Trojan horse concealing massive corporate tax breaks that would make our debt situation much worse.”
10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America
The Fix the Debt coalition is using the so-called “fiscal cliff” to push the same old corporate agenda of more tax breaks while shifting the burden on to the rest of us.
Author Event: The Rich Don’t Always Win – DC
Join veteran labor journalist and Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow Sam Pizzigati for a discussion and signing of his new book.
Privatizing Public Schools
Watch the magic of the market at work.
Supreme Court, Inc.
The precedents the Roberts Court is setting are making it easier for corporations to exercise the rights of American citizens without corresponding civic responsibilities.
Cleaning Up Campaign Finance
Citizens United is here to stay unless we show it the door.
Multinationals Use International Tribunals to Overpower Nation-States
Multinational corporations often override domestic laws.
Overturning Citizens United
The future of food and farming depends on it.
Two Heads Aren’t Always Better than One
An alarming percentage of the fish found in creeks contaminated by J.R. Simplot’s phosphate mining operations in Idaho are grossly deformed.