Wealth Concentration

Researchers have just published a first-ever ranking of U.S. metro areas by number of super rich households they host. Residents of the top ten ultra-rich cities, the researchers seem to...

Students of modest means must pay a stiff price to build their capacity to contribute to society — and pay interest if they can't afford that price. A wealth tax...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have found that many of the world's most successful economies are combining high levels of innovation and creativity with low levels of inequality. Richard...

One luxury automaker is betting big that America's affluent feel no responsibility to the greater society crumbling all around them. Audi, the luxury automaker, has a new ad campaign out....

Pundits and pols love to blast windfalls that go to corporate CEOs who 'fail.' But windfalls for CEOs who 'perform,' research suggests, ought to worry us far more. Leo Apotheker,...

America's 400 richest now hold a fortune almost as large as their 2007 pre-Great Recession record. How swell a year have America’s 400 richest enjoyed over the past 12 months?...

The Census won't count it. The IRS won't tax it, at anywhere near full freight. What is it? It's enough, all by itself, to keep grand fortunes constantly soaring. Can...

Mainstream economists all around the world used to assume that equality acted as a drag on economic growth and development. Not anymore. Inequality, a conservative online daily told its readers...

People who live in societies where incomes face progressive tax rates, a new study shows, report higher levels of happiness than people who live in flatter tax systems. Two decades...