Private Equity: The New Neighborhood Loan Sharks
Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again.
Wealth Concentration
Who Should Corporate Managers Serve?
The dominant answer since the 1970s: shareholders and shareholders alone. But thoughtful analysts of the corporate manager role once had a much more egalitarian perspective.
Financial Industry Split on Speculation Tax
As EU negotiators struggle to reach the finish line on a financial transaction tax agreement, 52 industry professionals issue a joint statement in support.
When Sears Shared
America’s largest retailer spread the wealth around back in the 1950s and prospered. Today’s Sears is concentrating wealth — and crashing.
How Can We Rouse the Public Against an Abstract Noun?
Tips for fighting inequality from a top Oxfam campaigner.
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study Is Utter B.S.
A misleading study on Seattle implies raising the minimum wage hurts workers. A massive body of research implies otherwise.
What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It.
We have trillions sitting about that could be used to fix our roads and schools. The wealthy just don’t want you to know where those trillions sit.
Success and Luck
A top economist reflects on the role luck plays in our lives — and why so many people of grand fortune balk at acknowledging good fortune’s importance.
Untwisting the Modern History of Inequality in America
No single event has made the United States the world’s most unequal developed nation. But few events have done more to hasten that outcome than a 1975 strike at the Washington Post.