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Are America’s Rich Getting Tired of Winning?
L-R: Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker, Ben Bernanke. Photo credit: U.S. Federal Reserve / cc The obituaries for Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chair who died December 8 at age 92… → Read More
Will The 2020 Contenders Take On Inequality?
Is America’s political discourse on inequality finally getting real? In the early going of the 2020 presidential campaign, this has become a question worth… → Read More
Can Bloomberg Buy The White House?
With personal fortunes worth dozens of billions, modern American deep pockets can afford one of just about everything. → Read More
Michael Bloomberg Bought Gracie Mansion. Could He Buy the White House?
With personal fortunes worth dozens of billions, modern American deep pockets can afford one of just about everything. → Read More
Inequality And The Iron Law of Decaying Public Services
Public services almost always take it on the chin in societies where wealth starts furiously concentrating. Why should inequality have this impact? A little incendiary parable might help us understand. → Read More
Inequality and the Iron Law of Decaying Public Services
Public services almost always take it on the chin in societies where wealth starts furiously concentrating. Why should inequality have this impact? A little incendiary parable might help us understand. → Read More
America’s Rich Just Scored A Triple Jackpot
America’s awesomely affluent don’t have to place any bets to pull in the windfalls. They’re essentially hitting jackpots on a daily basis, as a “trifecta” of timely just-released research reminds us. → Read More
Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?
America’s awesomely affluent don’t have to place any bets to pull in the windfalls. They’re essentially hitting jackpots on a daily basis, as a “trifecta” of timely just-released research reminds us. → Read More
The GM Strike: A Century of Context
In deeply unequal societies, real gains for working people never come easy. → Read More
The GM Strike: A Century of Context
In deeply unequal societies, real gains for working people never come easy. → Read More
Wealth that Concentrates Kills
Two new official reports out of Washington trace our growing economic divide and the high price we pay, in dollars and lives, for letting that divide fester. → Read More
Behold the 21st-Century Penthouse: Peak Decadence?
From the summit of our new ‘needle towers,’ the ultra rich can look but never really see. → Read More
New York Points A New Way Forward For The Nation
Four decades ago, with the Proposition 13 property tax cap, California conservatives exploited frustrations over housing to help the rich become ever richer. Now progressives in New York have just turned the tables. → Read More
In New York, and Beyond, Our Plutocrats May Need a New Playbook
Four decades ago, with the Proposition 13 property tax cap, California conservatives exploited frustrations over housing to help the rich become ever richer. Now progressives in New York have just turned the tables. → Read More
How The Super-Rich Avoid Paying Their Share
We now have some new clues on the riches of our richest, thanks to the tax-evasion records whistleblowers have been so generously sharing. → Read More
How Wealthy Have Our Super Wealthy Become?
We now have some new clues on the riches of our richest, thanks to the tax-evasion records whistleblowers have been so generously sharing. → Read More
A Nation Where Only The Rich Have Homes?
In California’s Bay Area, two-thirds of the homeless haven’t been able to find temporary sheltering services. They live and sleep outdoors, many in lines of RVs parked along public right-of-ways like the waterfront in Berkeley. And that has infuriated nearby residents who’ve paid big bucks for their residences. → Read More
In an Unequal America, Empathy, Not Just Housing, Has Become Too Pricey
In California’s Bay Area, two-thirds of the homeless haven’t been able to find temporary sheltering services. They live and sleep outdoors, many in lines of RVs parked along public right-of-ways like the waterfront in Berkeley. And that has infuriated nearby residents who’ve paid big bucks for their residences. → Read More
U.S. Tax Policy Can Turn on a Dime. Has Ocasio-Cortez Just Turned It?
How rapidly can U.S. tax rates on our highest incomes change? This fast: In 1916, Congress more than doubled the top federal tax rate on income over $2 million to 15 percent. A future House speaker confidently announced at the time that the top rate couldn’t possibly go any higher. His confidence would prove a bit misplaced. The top rate in 1918: 77 percent. Our contemporary rich now face a 37… → Read More
Prices, Plutocrats, and Corporate Concentration
The more industries monopolize, the wider the gap between our richest and everyone else. → Read More