Consider this shocking statistic on income inequality: The eight richest men on earth control as much wealth as half of the global population, or the poorest 3.6 billion people. While those are global ...

Tim Smeeding, a professor of public affairs and economics at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, has a few ideas on how to solve income inequality in the US ...

I find most discussions of taxation mind-numbingly stupid. We have a terrible tax code. It's full of bad incentives. It's written by people in the thrall of public opinion or pledged to Grover ...