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 ...

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Taxing the rich to help the poor and middle class has defined the presidential campaigns of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Skeptics of the proposal argue that a wealth tax of this ...

Eric Schmidt, the inexplicably well-compensated chairman of Google, stopped over at South by Southwest today, where he decided to share some ideas about how the country should grapple with income ...

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. He spoke with professor Oded Galor, who wrote a book about the history of wealth inequality. Galor said ...

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