Wealth Concentration

On the eve of the release of the annual CEO pay survey reports, a look at the causes and consequences of chief executive pay spirals. By Salvatore Babones Why are...

We obsess over health care in the United States, because we all want to be healthy. In the process, new evidence suggests, we're ignoring the social dynamics that actually determine...

Austerity is spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become even more concentrated at the global economic summit. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking...

Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can...

A tax-the-rich bombshell has dropped in the presidential race. The French presidential race. But this bombshell’s blast will almost certainly reverberate elsewhere. Maybe even in the United States. By Sam...

If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect...

The new Obama White House federal budget for 2013 advances a vision for a significantly more progressive tax code. But that vision, if realized, would still not restore all the...

Lawmakers make laws. They don't enforce them. Corporate America understands that difference — and exploits it. The latest case in point: the battle over outrageous CEO pay. Towers Watson, the...

With inequality now a front-page issue, the stats that measure inequality have taken on a new importance. And no inequality stat has a longer pedigree -- or more confusion surrounding...