From 2013 to 2016, the top 10% of U.S. households increased their share of total wealth from an amazing 75.3% to a stunning 77.2%.(LM Otero / AP) “The one who dies with the most toys wins ...

The future of free-market capitalism is in the news a lot lately. It has created unprecedented wealth for humanity, lifting billions out of poverty. But its more rapacious elements are driving ...

Robert Reich: We’re Living Under the Cruelest Form of Capitalism in the World Wealth inequality has spiraled out of control. It’s time to end this vicious cycle. Robert Reich November 9, 2021 ...

Wealth has soared while GDP growth has been tepid in recent years. That raises key questions, write researchers from the McKinsey Global Institute.

Economic inequalities in our country are growing and, as always, cause widely-differing outcomes in health, housing, education, employment and other areas. This is a crucial problem for our society… ...

Even more important, as we shall explain, it ignores the role that the structure of the economic web itself plays in driving the creation of novelty and the evolution of future wealth.

Black History Month has become the time to reflect on all the progress black Americans have made, but the sobering reality is that when it comes to wealth–the paramount indicator of economic ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.