Economy

There is something grating about seeing a prominent economist refer to the US public as “stupid.”

In today's On the News segment: The US is the most unequal society in the developed world, and more.

A tax on inherited wealth could eliminate student debt while reducing growing inequality.

This episode looks at low Irish taxes on corporations, interns fighting back, and more.

Since CEOs are among the very top earners in the US economy, reductions in their pay will have a substantial impact on wage inequality.

Central banks that have pursued quantitative easing have done so despite political pressure, not because of it, and fiscal austerity has been imposed almost everywhere.

The Treasury Department announced new rules designed to stem the tide of inversions, and have been somewhat successful.

Regardless of what the minimum wage law says, many workers inevitably end up earning less.

What so-called ‘freedoms’ were achieved with the fall of the Berlin Wall?

In many countries, including most of the high-income countries and the most populous lower-income countries, the distribution of income has become more unequal.