Wealth Concentration

We hear all the time about America’s bloated federal government and how it’s grown like a kind of bureaucratic kudzu to smoother and strangle our otherwise dynamic economy. Now that...

In 2005 Citigroup stock analysts Ajay Capur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh had an incredible insight. Once upon a time GDP growth meant that the whole economy improved.  But in...

Today's swaggering rich are stuffing their dollars into investments that do America's 99 percent not one whit of good. Your pop quiz for today: Define “art.” Wait, you don't need...

Inflation has been steadily eroding the value of the U.S. minimum wage over recent decades. But inflation only explains part of the story why the minimum wage has become such...

The past few months have brought us headlines like "Sharp Drop in Unemployment Rates" and "New Unemployment Claims at 9-Month Low."  It sounds like employment trends today are finally looking up. ...

Retail sales are up in the top 1 percent's Plutonomy, but down in the Realonomy where the other 99 percent live. By Salvatore Babones The economy is expanding, the unemployment...

One puts on football pageants. Another makes mega millions on a virtual farm. They all remind us how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond. By...

The incomes of the richest have now grown so large that even the think tank of the developed world's governments is calling for tax hikes. By Salvatore Babones On Monday...

The other 99 percent do far worse in the United States than in any other developed country. By Salvatore Babones In September 2011 the Occupy Wall Street movement grabbed the...