Adam Shell

The world's financial markets had a terrible Monday. The debt crisis in Greece (population: 11 million) has been dominating the headlines and the press's attention, while serious deterioration in China (population: 1.36 billion) is getting short shrift. It isn't just that the mainland Chinese stock market has broken the bear-market decline threshold of 20 percent in less than three weeks,…

USA Today is furthering an ideal that’s more socialist than American – penalize the executives because they make more than everyone else. “To say the pay gap between Wall Street’s top titans and average Americans is widening would be an understatement,” wrote Adam Shell in the August 30 USA Today. The USA Today article was about a study by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and United for…