The World Wealth Gap Has Become Even Scarier
The world’s ultra-rich have padded their fortunes to new record levels. Who says? The flaming radicals at Merrill Lynch!
The Cost of Private Jets to Everyone Else
We just released our new report about corporate jet excess: “High Flyers: How Private Jet Travel Is Straining the System, Warming the Planet, and Costing You Money.”
Are we dying for the rich?
Canadian commentator Crawford Kilian takes a look at the global evidence that links the concentration of income and wealth to poor health for both low- and middle-income people.
Our great economic U-turn
This perceptive Wall Street Journal op-ed, by social critic Thomas Frank, wonders when Americans ever voted for plutocracy.
What should we do about greed?
High taxes on the rich in Europe, notes author Susan Jacoby in On Faith, “go to provide a level of security that no American below the top 1 percent enjoys.”
