How Would Francis Invest?
Heed the pope’s call to tread more lightly upon the Earth by making your money fossil-free.
3 Charts That Show Just How Much Wall Street Bonuses Swamp Low-Wage Worker Pay
We’re unfairly rewarding the people whose work we couldn’t do without, such as taking care of the elderly.
Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low-Wage Workers
The financial industry’s 2014 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.
A Budget Plan for the People
The President’s populist budget will leave Republicans scrambling to explain why they don’t support it.
Our Widely Ignored Redistribution Up
If redistribution is so terrible, why do our policy wonks pay so little attention to redistribution from poor to rich?
Dueling Wall Street Taxes
Obama officials have presented the big bank fee as an alternative to a financial transaction tax — but these taxes address two very different problems.
The London Whale-Sized Loopholes in Wall Street Pay Reform
While the European Union’s new banker pay standards may be imperfect, they do represent tougher regulations that the U.S. can learn from.
Author Event: Private Equity at Work
IPS’ Inequality & The Common Good, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Teaching for Change Bookstore, and Busboys present Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt to discuss and sign their new book about, “When Wall Street Manages Main Street.”
The Class War Goes Retail
Why does Wall Street tank on news portending economic gains for most Americans?
Wall Street Bonuses and the Minimum Wage
The New York financial industry’s bonus pool exceeded the annual earnings of the more than 1 million Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.
20 Years of Executive Excess
Since 1994, Executive Excess has reported annually on excessive CEO compensation.
Wall Street’s Climate Finance Bonanza
An elite group of developed countries appears to be on the brink of instigating yet another corporate handout and big bank giveaway–this time in the name of fighting climate change.
We’re Not Broke
This commonsense guide to avoiding the fiscal swindle would nearly eliminate the budget deficit while making the United States more equitable, green, and secure.
Empty Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric
Lots of office-seekers this fall are campaigning against the 1 percent, but will they govern that way?
European Victory on Taxing Speculation
The goofy stunts weren’t the only game-changers.