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Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson is a Fellow of the TNI's sister Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C and head of the Global Economy Programme.

Recent content by Sarah Anderson

Food shouldn't be a pokerchip (15 Nov 2010)

Excessive speculating makes for yo-yoing corn prices, pushing millions of people into hunger, while big-time gamblers exit in a stampede as soon as the price bubble threatens to pop.

Obama’s Trip to India: Don’t Rush into a Bilateral Investment Treaty (28 Oct 2010)

The U.S. and India should not sign a treaty that will only serve the short-term interests of large corporations, and undermine the authority of governments to protect their people from financial crisis.

CEO Pay and the Great Recession (8 Sep 2010)

CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers in the US since the onset of the economic crisis are not tightening their own belts.

Unfinished Business of Executive Pay Reform (4 Sep 2010)

Excessive executive pay, as the Wall Street meltdown has demonstrated ever so vividly, endangers our public well-being as surely as any other pollutants.

The Bailout and 'Greedy' CEOs (26 Sep 2008)
Congress should use the proposed bailout legislation for much-needed reform ' in particular the need to start confronting the top-heavy distribution of American income and wealth that has fueled this Wall Street meltdown in the first place.
The bailout and CEO pay: what’s ‘excessive’? (25 Sep 2008)

Outside of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Republican leaders in the White House and Congress, just about everybody who’s anybody on the national political scene agrees with the notion that the financial bailout must include constraints on executive compensation.

Both of our major presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, are insisting that the bailout must not enrich the already rich.

In Congress, top Democrats are singing the same song.

But the lyrics have been rather indistinct.

Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program (16 Jun 2008)
Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.

America's first Gilded Age didn't merely end. Progressives had to fight to end it. Our forebears did battle, decade after decade, for proposals that dared to "soak the rich."

How quaint that phrase now seems. Progressives today do talk about making the superrich pay their "fair tax share"; but we no longer dare imagine an America without the superrich.

Three Amigos Summit (16 Apr 2008)
The forthcoming secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership summit between Mexico, US and Canada will be attended by Wal-Mart, Chevron, and 28 other large corporations, while members of Congress, journalists, and ordinary citizens are excluded.

President George W. Bush will soon host what has become an annual “Three Amigos Summit.” The leaders of Mexico, the United States, and Canada will be gathering in New Orleans on April 21 and 22. What do you suppose is on the agenda? A rational response to immigration, perhaps?

Busting paranoid right-wing fantasies of dissolving the Mexico-US-Canada borders (10 Apr 2008)

This month, President Bush will host the leaders of Canada and Mexico to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), a project Lou Dobbs has predicted will "end the United States as we know it."

Lou sounds downright blasé, though, compared to all the online ranting and raving on this subject.

Will Dems Follow Through on Promises to Fix NAFTA? (16 Jan 2008)
Washington is long overdue for making sure U.S. trade policies put workers and the environment above corporate interests.

Kudos are in order for the intrepid activists in Iowa and New Hampshire whose bird-dogging helped shift the presidential debate on free trade.

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