From 2013 to 2016, the top 10% of U.S. households increased their share of total wealth from an amazing 75.3% to a stunning 77.2%. LM Otero / AP “The one who dies with the most toys wins.” “Them that ...

Plans for a wealth tax, which is dividing France, have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and ...

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we have just published that takes an alternative approach to understanding the economy. Rather than focus on flow-based metrics of economic performance like gross domestic product, we constructed a ...

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If we can’t raise taxes to halt intergenerational wealth accumulation, our hopes lie in heirs pissing it away.

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, professors David Gamage and Darien Shanske discuss their recent paper, “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level,” which lays out their argument for a ...

Elon Musk’s wealth has surpassed $200 billion. It would take the median U.S. worker over 4 million years to make that much. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. We’re now in America’s ...

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RBI's Satish Marathe emphasizes cooperatives as essential for decentralizing economic power and preventing wealth ...