Consider this shocking statistic on income inequality: The eight richest men on earth control as much wealth as half of the global population, or the poorest 3.6 billion people. While those are global ...

I often start the first-year managerial economics classes I teach by showing a graph to my MBA students (see below). It shows that in 1951, middle-income Indians (from the middle 40 th percentile, ...

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of gender inequality in the tech industry. Many high-profile companies have released figures on the number of men versus women that they ...

The interest rate regime embraced to combat strong inflation of the mid-1970s and early 1980s has had unintended consequences—including the development of historic levels of wealth inequality. Yakov ...

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Should everyone get a minimum inheritance at birth? How about a government-guaranteed income or job? In the face of a growing income gap, we may need to get revolutionary. If you’re going to talk ...

Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...

Everyone knows that one of the greatest problems is inequality of wealth, with the super-rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Few politicians know how to solve the problem. Bill Davidow, ...

‘I Am Not a Secret Nazi’ Is the New ‘I Am Not a Witch’ Nuking the Filibuster Would Be Political Folly America Must Slash Red Tape to Make Nuclear Power Great Again Comey Pretrial Motions Highlight ...