Mark Maynard | Joseph Stiglitz

Zingerman’s founder Paul Saginaw on his time with Obama, the importance of raising the minimum wage, and why business owners should invest in their employees instead of their lobbyists

By Mark | April 13, 2014

Early last winter, when the National Restaurant Association issued a formal statement about how raising the minimum wage would kill their industry, Paul Saginaw, one of the co-founders of Ann Arbor’s iconic Zingerman’s Deli, felt compelled to respond, and argue in favor of raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25. “We would be irresponsible employers […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Food, Michigan, Politics, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, affordable housing, Ben's Chili Bowl, Busboys and Poets, Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, campaign spending, Cheetos, civil unrest, communities of hate, community chest, compassion, Costco, Crain’s Detroit Business, Debbie Dingell, debt, Democratic Steering Committee, Detroit News, dishwashing, emergency relief, Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, food service, Gary Peters, hairy underbellies, health insurance, hugs, hypocrisy, lobbyists, Lori Saginaw, Lynn Yates, Mark Schauer, Matt Greff, medical debt, minimum wage, Mitch Albom, money as free speech, National Restaurant Association, non-tip restaurants, Obama, Obamacare, open book finance, Paul Saginaw, Planned Parenthood, profit sharing, Raise Michigan, Rene Greff, reuben, Rick Strutz, ROC, Secret Service, Secretary of Labor, student debt, Supreme Court, Thomas Perez, thrivable wage, tipping, Tom Harkin, Zingerman's | 49 Comments

Occupy Update… featuring Hedges, Grayson, Stiglitz, assorted agent provocateurs, and those vampire squid with their relentlessly jamming blood funnels

By Mark | October 9, 2011

The developments around the Occupy movement are occurring so quickly now that it’s hard to keep track. I’d like to be able to share things as they happen, but, given the realities of life, and the fact that this blog is just a one man operation, I don’t think that’s going to happen. With that […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged agent provocateurs, Alan Grayson, American Spectator, anarchists, anti-capitalist, bailout, Bill Maher, blood funnel, Canada, CBC, Chris Hedges, corporate media, Goldman Sachs, Inside the Business World, James O'Keefe school of journalism, John Ralston Saul, Kevin O'Leary, left wing nutbar, manufacturing, Matt Taibbi, Molly Crabapple, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Wall Street, octopi, Octopi Wall Street, P.J. O’Rourke, Patrick Howley, Peter King, socialized losses and privatized gains, speculation, the sad state of journalism, vampire squid, Wall Street, Wall Street bailouts, Wall Street bonuses | 43 Comments

Joseph Stiglitz on the widening wealth disparity in America

By Mark | April 7, 2011

In the current issue of Vanity Fair, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has an article on the detrimental effects of the widening wealth disparity in America. Here’s a clip: …It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly […]

Posted in Economics, Other, Politics | Also tagged Bill Gates, income disparity, infrastructure, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, Warren Buffet, wealth inequality | 19 Comments

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Occupy Update… featuring Hedges, Grayson, Stiglitz, assorted agent provocateurs, and those vampire squid with their relentlessly jamming blood funnels

Joseph Stiglitz on the widening wealth disparity in America

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