Why has America become so unequal? Americans, says one school of thought, simply don’t care how wealthy our wealthiest get to be. The New York Times has just run an analysis that plays off this ...
Officially, we don’t have royalty in this country. However, we do have “retail kings.” Like “Crazy Eddie.” In the 1970s and 1980s, the Crazy Eddie electronics chain stretched from Philadelphia to ...
Where in the developed world do rich people pay the least in taxes? To Americans these days, this question would seem to have an obvious answer. The most rich people-friendly nation at tax time simply ...
A holiday for popular generosity like Giving Tuesday is worth celebrating. But wealth inequality can overshadow its impact.
Texas’ electrical grid made national headlines in the winter of 2021 when the state experienced statewide power outages. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state’s power grid ...
President-elect Donald Trump has selected an unprecedented total of seven reported billionaires for senior positions in his administration. Including himself, that makes eight. This figure could ...
The good times — for America’s super wealthy — are now rolling way past good. Our richest have in 2024 enjoyed their best year ever. No other nation’s deepest pockets have watched their fortunes grow ...
Looking to find something special this holiday season for that mega-millionaire in your life? The Italian retailer Valextra has just what you may need: a cocktail set that offers a “vision of design ...
“It might seem obvious now, but maybe having a prominent DAF sponsor be the authoritative voice on DAF trends was a mistake.” That’s how a colleague responded after the release of National ...
Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s richest nation — still does not have in place a ...