Economy

If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.

Turns out that life with no health benefits, vacation pay or retirement plan is not a rosy picture.

The American economy is at a crossroads. One of the questions that will determine which path we take is whether and how the government can use taxes to meet …

Updates on Maya Angelou; Chilean students' victory; Detroit's plan to demolish 40,000 houses; and housing market realities.

Of course, our modern day version has to include a gun. Holden with a gun where instead of holing up in a hotel room with a prostitute, he holes …

Anyone in the political or public relations game knows that the best way to make a disclosure but minimize its impact is to do so on day before the …

The distribution of wealth is one of today's most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term?

A small number of agriculture businesses control a very large portion of the world's food supply.

In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.

The rich love to demonize the poor, but it turns out that the wealthy are the ones who need a little shaming, and more.