New data about Wall Street compensation shows that the financial sector’s huge pay has widened the national disparity between white men and women and people of color, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank. … Read...
“In a letter to the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and Ron Kirk, the United States trade representative, 257 economists from around the world, including Joseph Stiglitz and Ricardo Huasmann, argue against...