Wealth Concentration

Advocates are regrouping after city officials knuckled under to pressure from Amazon and repealed a tax on big employers.

Any city — any society — that lets the rich keep as much as they can grab is asking for big-time trouble.

Some rich people fly first class to fancy hotels. Others fly private jets to private islands.

Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.