Wealth Concentration

Looking for a quick fix to the deep inequality that so afflicts us? Stop your searching. We need to strategize instead for the long-term. A riveting new work from a...

Do you know how much the cuts in Social Security benefits now getting debated in Congress will ‘save’ America? Not nearly as much as a tax loophole that benefits the...

If we let wealth continue to concentrate — and corrupt every element of our contemporary societies — we'll all end up crying ‘96 tears.’ Aging baby boomers may remember, from...

In January 2010, two prominent Harvard University economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, published a highly influential paper in which they argued that high levels of government debt are associated with low...

A colossal gift from a fabulously rich patron of the arts has the museum world buzzing. But hold the hosannahs. The rich aren't saving us. Thomas Campbell didn't have a...

Britain's top unions will soon be flexing their shareholder muscles -- and insisting that the corporations where their pension funds have investments start taking significant steps to narrow the pay...

Imagine you are a politician facing a tough reelection campaign. You sincerely believe in low taxes for corporations and investors. Your opponent wants to raise taxes on the rich in...

All across Corporate America, top execs are feathering their own nests at the expense of their employees. The French have a better idea. [caption id="attachment_5194" align="alignright" width="298"] The founder of...

Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected one of the central political questions of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. By Sam Pizzigati [caption id="attachment_5164" align="alignright" width="300"] An Occupy Wall Street...