A Do-Over for Our Unequal Economy?
Still another report is documenting the massive new wealth of America’s wealthiest. Could a whopping one-time tax on grand fortunes be a useful antidote?
Blogging Our Great Divide
New developments on the inequality front? Our Institute for Policy Studies Inequality.org editorial team tracks them here.
Trump’s Taxes Won’t Go Away
The candidate’s ongoing scandalous behavior can’t cover up whatever he’s hiding in his tax returns
Mr. Spock Fixes America
New book, Five Easy Theses, offers straightforward solutions to the nation's most vexing problems.
Extracting a Cold Hard Corporate Truth
For today’s top corporate executives, the contemporary corporation has become a personal ATM — with no limits on withdrawals.
Don’t Go To Bowdoin
Malcolm Gladwell challenges firmly held beliefs around social mobility and our education system in a thoughtful, engaging, and wildly popular new podcast
For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry
Lobbyists for America’s grandest fortunes may want to raise their rates. Capitol Hill is getting a gadfly who can really sting.
Trump’s Trickle-Down Ticket
Donald Trump's VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
Poorer Than Their Parents
Young people are set to inherit the unequal economic heritage of their parents. Read the full article at US News and World Report. The promise of market economics is supposed...
Mike Pence’s Partners on Climate
Trump's running mate is part of a Clean Power Plan opposition network that tax-dodging utilities companies have helped fund.
In Brazil, a Pre-Olympics Folly
No one will ever run the 100-meter dash in less than five seconds. And no one, Brazil’s story suggests, will ever end poverty while ignoring grand fortune.