Why almost anybody can be a CEO . . . The hideen bonus that awaits the rich should Congress extend the George W. Bush tax cuts . . . Why aren’t more billionaires taking Warren Buffett up on his philanthropic pledge drive?
The self-financed campaigns of wealthy candidates: How much should we fear them? . . . The rise and fall of American wealth culture: a review . . . The bonanza millionaires will realize if the Bush tax cuts get extended across the board.
The latest annual U.S. income data from economist Emmanuel Saez . . . The awesome global network of tax havens . . . Comparing the super rich of the Great Depression to the super rich of the Great Recession.
A new attack on the science that shows inequality matters . . . Europe as a case study in the social progress narrower gaps between the rich and everyone else can bring . . . The U.S. income gap and the Great Recession.
A Great Recession accounting . . . Are our bosses getting meaner? . . . Comparing greed at CVS, Target, and Wal-Mart . . . Academia and inequality.
Why our staggering income gap makes economic calamities inevitable . . . A new biography of Louis Brandeis, the relentless challenger to concentrated wealth . . . Our feeble tax bite on the top.
A new Senate initiative to restore the estate tax, introduced by Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, takes aim at America’s greatest fortunes . . . The state of the world’s wealthy, as Merrill Lynch sees it . . . The legacy of pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.
Inside this issue: Why a speculation tax would be no gamble . . . Incentives for the wealthy and innovation . . . Which nation has, relatively speaking, the richest rich? . . . Those incredible compound mansions in L.A.
An emergency 1 percent tax on America’s grandest fortunes could raise enough revenue to keep teachers on the job and libraries open . . . Evolution and inequality . . . The most expensive hotel suite east of the Mississippi . . . Hedge fund heavies sidewhack a mega-millionaire do-gooder.
A UK conservative opens up, quite unintentionally, a new front in the income inequality wars . . . Executive pay then and now: a half-century plus of data . . . Inequality and the future of the Obama presidency.