Wealth Concentration

A new labor report reinforces the case for more transparency on the enormous gap between what CEOs take home and what they pay their workers. The AFL-CIO, America's national trade...

Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How's that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you...

A new report looks at all the taxes Americans pay, from income to property and sales taxes. Do the rich bear a heavier tax load? Yes, but just barely. Turn...

At what point will our world wake up to the fantastically rewarding scam that our hedge fund masters of the universe have been running? No single individual in the United...

Behind last week’s record-smashing $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich. By Sam Pizzigati The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t...

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...