From Manhattan to Monaco, the world’s super rich are fashioning themselves into a new global tribe of footloose and stateless. The rest of us get to gawk — and foot the ultimate bill . . . The billionaires’ ball . . . Behind the mew French tax-the-rich push.
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality . . . Why rising productivity in the United States has sparked so few celebrations . . . Taxing the poor!
Over two years ago, the IRS announced an ambitious new effort to subject the super rich to unprecedentedly intensive audits. How’s that effort working out? Most lawmakers would rather you not ask . . . Executive PayWatch 2012 . . . CEO pay as a multiple of worker pay in the United States.
Even rich people sooner or later have to drive over bridges. So why aren’t the wealthy screaming about America’s inadequate — and increasingly unsafe — basic infrastructure? . . . How progressive is our tax system? . . . Bank of America’s petulant CEO.
At what point will our world wake up to the fantastically rewarding scam that our hedge fund masters of the universe have been running? . . . Chasing down the right’s top tax lie, again . . . Alan Mulally and his Ford Motor millions.
Behind last week’s record-smashing $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich . . . Reviewing 99 to 1, a great new primer for the Occupy spring.
We obsess over health care in the United States, because we all want to be healthy. In the process, new evidence suggests, we’re ignoring the social dynamics that actually determine our health . . . Dogs and billionaires . . . Comparing life and inequality in Japan and the United States.
Austerity is spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become even more concentrated at the global economic summit. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax . . The Darwin economy . . . Comparing top incomes in the United States and Sweden.
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession’s deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide . . . Deconstructing the self-made myth . . . The rich bouncing back.
A tax-the-rich bombshell has dropped in the Presidential race. The French Presidential race. But this bombshell’s blast will almost certainly reverberate elsewhere. Maybe even in the United States . . . Are the rich less ethical? . . . 2012 U.S. income estimates.