Research & Commentary

From a top financial analyst group, more evidence that the human race has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010...

The American middle class, concludes a new white paper from the ad industry's top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. The chain-smoking ad agency account execs of Mad Men, the...

A new United for a Fair Economy report, by standing our current state tax system on its head, is dramatizing the illogic of public service cutbacks. In this spring of...

Back in the mid 20th century, colleges and universities helped America beat down economic inequality. Now they reinforce it. The American Dream isn’t quite unfolding the way Richard Silva expected....

This year, for the first time, shareholders in the United States can vote on CEO pay. UK shareholders have had that right since 2002, but it hasn't slowed CEO pay excess. A new UK High Pay Commission report explores why.

Billionaire cash contributions have been cascading into America's most troubled school districts. Unfortunately, so have billionaire perspectives on education. Philanthropists can be bullies. They can — and do — use...

America's contemporary rich, new IRS data show, didn't quite match their all-time income record in 2008. But they scored their second-highest showing ever, despite the Great Recession. Their average income:...

Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the super-rich and vast corporations.  Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers. They're calling for deep cuts...

Researchers at the Deloitte global financial consulting group are calculating that the U.S. millionaire share of world millionaire wealth will actually increase over the next decade. Deloitte LLP has just...

Real policy wonks bore people. The phony wonk from Wisconsin now driving Congress seduces, with a patter that leaves our wealthy almost completely disappeared. Rep. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin revels...