Chuck Collins

Staging an Olympics in Boston could help reduce the wealth gap, but only if planners identify the interventions that could reduce the city's most basic disparities.

Here are five tax secrets billionaires deploy to keep you paying more than your fair share:

Estate tax opponents use farmers as props in recent House hearing.

Conservative economists tried to embarrass Thomas Piketty at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Boston. They ended up embarrassing only themselves.