Four Wall Street Bonus Charts That May Make You Scream
The culture that led to the 2008 financial crisis continues to flourish.
Report: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low Wage Workers
The 2016 bonus pool held enough dollars to lift the pay of all of the country’s more than 3 million servers up to $15 an hour.
Wall Street Hopes You’ve Forgotten the Crash Already
The most pro-Wall Street White House we’ve ever seen is betting you’ve forgotten the 2008 crash.
This Trump Appointee Says He’s Standing Up for ‘Bullied’ CEOs
Fortune 500 chiefs make twice as much in a month as U.S. workers make in a decade. But any move to require corporations to document that disparity would be shameful, a new Trump appointee argues.
To Save Main Street, Tax Wall Street
Tax evasion by the wealthiest Americans is drying up our heartland communities and squelching opportunities for our young people.
Who Exactly Is Benefiting from the Rise in Stock Markets? Probably Not You.
When we cheer for the growth in stock prices, what we’re really cheering for is the further swelling of the bank accounts of the already wealthy.
America’s Construction Carnage
Some of the same factors that make Wall Streeters fabulously rich are making construction work tragically unsafe.
Who Voted for Wall Street?
Trump railed against Wall Street bankers on the campaign trail. Now they’re joining his administration.
Trump’s Choice for Treasury Led Foreclosures on Thousands of Families
We can say goodbye to the candidate who promised to fix a rigged economic system.
Why 2016 May See a Record Top 1%
America’s top earners will be rushing to maximize their 2016 income if Democrats gain a sweep in November. But what happens next will be what really matters.
Our Society is Unequal By Design
A new book from veteran researcher Dean Baker looks at the rigged rules that drive wealth to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands.
Swing Voters Want Wall Street Reform
Nearly 70 percent of voters in four battleground states support breaking up the big banks and eliminating loopholes that favor Wall Street executives.
Presidential Politicians Are All Bark, No Bite on CEO Pay
While candidates are busy ranting about Wall Street’s fat cats, taxpayers are left picking up their billion-dollar tab.
The Failure of Bill Clinton’s CEO Pay Reform
A new IPS report finds that executive pay of Wall Street bankers has skyrocketed, despite the 1992 reform. Will Hillary fix it?
Executive Excess 2016: The Wall Street CEO Bonus Loophole
A new Institute for Policy Studies report is the first to calculate how much taxpayers have been subsidizing executive bonuses at the nation’s largest banks.