Tracking Inequality
America’s Top Incomes: Down But Certainly Not Out
New data — for 2008 — have revealed a shrinking gap between the rich and the rest of us. But the nation’s top high-income tracker isn’t celebrating. And neither should we.
Wall Street’s Meltdown and Wealth’s Maldistribution
The Great Recession, new research shows, has left wealth in the United States even more concentrated at America’s economic summit.
Census Time for Billionaires
The world’s super-duper rich, in the new Forbes magazine count, total just over 1,000 — and hold more wealth than half of humanity.
Our Plutocracy: A Sobering New Portrait
Never before, at least not in the lifetime of any American now living, have so few made so much at the expense of so many. A look at just-released IRS data at the staggeringly high incomes of our top 400.
In a Lost Decade, We Had Big Winners
By nearly every measure, average Americans lost ground in the ‘Aughts.’ They’ve been losing ground — to the rich — for three full decades now. Will the ‘Teens’ make that four?
America's Greediest: The 2009 Top Ten
Who deserves to sit on this year’s list of our most avaricious? We could pick ten eminently deserving greedy straight from any big bank on Wall Street. But why spoil all the fun?
The 2009 Forbes 400: The What-Me-Worry Gang
An average American family would have to work thousands of years to amass a billion-dollar fortune. America’s super rich, the new data on our richest 400 make clear, can lose a billion and barely notice.
GDP: Taking Aim at the Stat that Bamboozles
A conservative world leader and two world-famous economists who challenge conservative world leaders have joined up to call for a totally new global economic yardstick. And they want that yardstick to measure inequality.
A New Profile of America’s ‘Top-Heaviest’ Year
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America’s super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year’s freshly crunched income numbers.
For the World’s Wealthy, A Setback Most Slight
The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world’s wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever.
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