…at all, primarily in Africa. Here are a few excerpts: Is economic inequality around the world getting better or worse? CRITICS of capitalism are convinced that the gap between rich…

Make the Tax Cuts Permanent! Now! Quick, before this trend stops: All told, it was a fabulous year to be very rich. [Forbes magazine] counted some 587 billionaires around the…

George Soros The three most famous super-rich liberals are George Soros, Warren Buffet (notwithstanding his advising the Shwarzenegger campaign), and Bill Gates Sr. (Gates Sr. is not personally rich, but…

…bill may let some rich investers avoid almost all levies Here’s a nice highlight from the A2 story: “…a rich investor might, for instance, borrow money and deduct interest payments…then…

…capital for 18 percent, and intangible capital 77 percent.” “Rich countries are largely rich because of the skills of their populations and the quality of the institutions supporting economic activity,”…

…In other words, during an era in which the rich were getting richer anyway, we deliberately set out to reduce their tax burdens so that they could become even richer….

…to lay out the technical issues for me. First, of all, data for mean wealth is more reliable than median wealth. For rich countries like the United States, there is…

…(rich) taxpayers from ripping off the system as much as possible. Worse, these two have both already made it clear that the group they really want to hit are those…

…cuts to the rich and smaller minimum wage increases for the working poor. The link between higher productivity and people’s wages and salaries was severed – the income of the…

…the debt is mostly foreign owned. They may believe (correctly) that it is mostly owned by rich people and that non rich people will bear most of the burden of…