Tag: wealth

It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.

Meanwhile, most Americans are subject to an increasingly harsh and arbitrary capitalism.

America’s wealthy have never been wealthier. They should pay their fair share of taxes. The big switcheroo should be reversed.

Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.

What it means to be an heir in the U.S., and a few big ideas on how to use the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever.

We just have to hope Americans have learned about the greed and deception of that arena full of super-rich.

Why is it so hard for people with wealth and power to admit all this?

Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.

In the U.S., where wealth inequality is extreme and getting worse, the richest .01 percent are wealth-obese.

The foundation of an economy is money. And if the creation, value and availability of that money are controlled by few elites instead of a free market then it doesn’t matter how complex and a giant system we build.