Wealth Concentration

Not the 99 percent. We've let the cheerleaders for the richest among us get away with myths about mobility for much, much too long. Mobility, apologists for America's grand fortunes...

All sorts of federal agencies publish income inequality data. But only the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office directly takes on America's income inequality deniers. Back in 1979, America’s most affluent 1...

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...