Blogging Our Great Divide

Bernie and Hillary have each laid out detailed plans to reduce inequality through reforming the tax code. Here’s where they stand.

Just a busload of billionaires, says Oxfam, now hold as much wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity. The elites now at Davos could, if they so chose, start steering that bus in a different direction.

The president shifts focus to the next administration to solve inequality. 

CEOs on both sides of the Atlantic have already made more in 2016 than most of their workers will make for the entire year.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign personifies the view that wealth should rule.

Hollywood depicts the financial crisis in gripping detail, but doesn’t explain how to avoid a repeat.

The tax treatment of the ultra wealthy might be the true scandal.

Only an intelligent, inclusive economy can fix what ails the American economy.

Bring your capital back to the real economy and establish a stake in the commonweal we all share.

Like many Americans, my mom has no retirement savings. Our corporate execs have no such worries. “My plan is just to work until I die.” That’s how my mom sums...