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Concentration of Wealth page

Thousands of articles have been written over the last two years showing the concentration of wealth in the United States and why it is accelerating. Here is a quick sampling.

• You Bought, They Sold
  by Mark Gemein
  Fortune Magazine
• Are CEOs Worth Their Salaries
  Washington Post
• Fed official decries CEO salaries
  by Peter G. Gosselin
  Los Angeles Times
• They’re Getting Richer
  by Daniel Kadlec
  Time Magazine
• Kmart’s advisers fuel debt spiral
  by Jennifer Dixon
  Detroit Free Press
• CEO Pay Far from Being Scaled Back
  by Martin Howell
  Reuters
• UAL gives new CEO $3 million signing bonus, stock
  USA Today
• ‘CEO-itis’
• Enron the Incredible
  by Dan Ackman
  Forbes
• The sour taste of CEO pay
  By Myron Kandel
  CNN Money
• The Perk Wars
  by Keith Naughton
  Newsweek
• The Emperor of Greed
  By Julie Creswell with Nomi Prins
  Fortune
• Global Crossing: Global Flameout
  By Julie Creswell
  Fortune
• How Telecom’s Bad Boy Did It
  By Jeremy Kahn
  Fortune
• Bernie’s Bad Idea
  By Christopher Byron
  Red Herring
• Foes call former WorldCom CEO Ebbers a ‘robber baron’
  By Rob Urban
  Bloomberg News
• Investigators scrutinize $20M Tyco fee
  By Kevin McCoy
  USA Today
• Former CEO of National Century: Man of mystery
  By Edward Iwata
  USA Today
• Tyco chairman got a 36% raise in 2001
  USA Today
• Toying with the Tax Code
  Office of Senator Chuck Grassley
• Qwest: A New Stink Bomb
  Business Week
• The Secrets of Philip Anschutz
  by Anthony Effinger
  Bloomberg News
• The Cost of Corporate Recklessness
• Drug Industry Poised to Reap Political Dividends
  By Vicki Kemper
  The Los Angeles Times
• Cabinet Is Millionaires’ Row
  CBS News
• Adelphia Officials Are Arrested, Charged With ‘Massive’ Fraud
  By JERRY MARKON and ROBERT FRANK
  The Wall Street Journal
• The Corporate Scandal Sheet
  by Penelope Patsuris
  Forbes
• America’s Most Overworked Directors
  by Lisa DiCarlo
  Forbes
• Enron Whodunit?
  by David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile
  Ephemera
• Despite Recession, Perks for Top Executives Grow
  by Liz Pulliam Weston
  Common Dreams
• Bonuses and Batting Averages
  by Martin Rosenberg
  Utility Business
• It’s perks aplenty for those at the top
  Los Angeles Times
• Give That CEO a Pay Raise!
  by Daniel Gross
  Slate
• Executive Excess
  PBS
• Enron Executives’ Benefits Kept on Growing As Retirement Plans of Employees Were Cut
  By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS
  The Wall Street Journal
• Lavished with perks, executives went for the quick bucks
  By Alan Clendenning
  Associated Press
• Report: Enron schemes reaped over $2 billion
  Associated Press
• Energy executives making fortunes in California
  by Chris Knap
  The Orange County Register
• Look who’s cashing in at Indian Casinos
  BY DONALD L. BARLETT AND JAMES B. STEELE
  Time
• Labor’s Losses, A union-sponsored corporate rip-off
  by Daniel Gross
  Slate

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Concentration of Wealth page