Economist and researcher Nitin Bharti explains how inequality is holding back India’s growth potential and argues what the ...

Going downhill, like a Slinky on a staircase, the empire rolls down almost imperceptibly, until it reaches the floor and collapses in on itself.  But the ...

He believes the shift happens when someone stops depending on a paycheck and starts owning things that hold or grow in value.

And even as it touts its standing as the world’s fourth-largest economy, state or country, the gap between the rich and poor ...

Most people think the gap between the rich and everyone else is about hustle, talent, or luck. But the more I studied money, ...

The American Dream has never felt further out of reach. And it’s not just because the house with the white-picket fence and the nanny to care for the children are unaffordable. They’re also, for many, ...

Today's New York Times reports on a new study by three economists purporting to show that the Supreme Court's decisions ...

When I arrived in Brattleboro in 1984, the parking lot behind the left-leaning bookstore I opened was teeming with scruffy ...

Beware our "Marie Antoinette" market. Poor Marie Antoinette. The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn't get enough ...

Forbes and the Wall Street Journal are doing a better job than the Chron at covering how a tax on the very rich would impact ...

We put on a brave face, but the reality is our cost of living is out of control and the middle class is disappearing.

Taxes, benefits, and household data make America look more unequal than it is.