1. How to Get $500 Million: Play Powerball or Become a CEO
(Matching tags: Wall Street, inequality, corporate pay packages, CEOs)

... last year. And Apple's Tim Cook recorded the highest compensation on record in the Wall Street Journal's annual CEO pay survey. In August 2011, he was awarded a $378 million annual pay package, mostly ...

2. Wall Street Tax Eclipses Other Deficit Reduction Options
(Matching tags: Wall Street, budget, deficit, financial transaction tax)

... here’s a handy chart that shows the financial transaction tax (a.k.a. the Wall Street or Robin Hood Tax) compared to 4 other revenue options that are often mentioned in the budget debates.  As you ...

3. “Take Back the Capitol”
(Matching tags: Wall Street, jobs, OccupyWallSt, unemployment, unions)

Today is the first day of a week-long protest, “Take Back the Capitol” (#99inDC). A collaborative effort between grassroots organizations, Occupy movements and unions, this protest strives to bring attention ...

4. Regroup, Re-strategize, React: The Two-Month Anniversary of #OWS
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

The birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street movement was raided and dismantled early Tuesday morning. At 1 a.m., NYPD in riot gear entered Zuccotti Park with an eviction notice in hand, telling protestors ...

5. Dealing With Things of Little Value: Occupy Wall Street and Copyrights
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, copyrights)

As the New York City police chase out and arrest protesters at the Occupy Wall Street site, they are also giving the world a lesson in how free market economics ain't what it is cracked up to be. One of ...

6. #OWS Survey Revisited
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

Héctor Cordero-Guzmán has conducted a second round of his #OWS survey on occupywallst.org, following up on his Oct. 5 study, which I discussed in an earlier post. Cordero-Guzmán fielded the second survey ...

7. Quick Thoughts on the Obama Administration's Opposition to a Financial Speculation Tax
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, OccupyWallSt)

... speculation tax on growth and jobs. But hey, it's a good thing to say if you want to protect Wall Street.  ...

8. #OWS: Freeze or Fade?
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt, protests)

... Nature may be unpredictable but the movement is looking towards the long-term. On occupywallst.org the protestors are asking for winter donations, bundling up to survive future Nor’easters. To date, #OWS ...

9. CEPR News October 2011
(Matching tags: FST, Wall Street, inequality, OccupyWallSt, Argentina, Haiti)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the Financial Transaction Tax CEPR Co-director Dean Baker was one of the first to call for the adoption of ...

10. #OWS: Who Supports the Movement?
(Matching tags: Wall Street, OccupyWallSt)

... anonymous survey posted October 5th on occupywallst.org, concluding that those involved in the #OWS movement are representative of the 99 percent. To see how Cordero-Guzmán’s 99 percent compares with the ...