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.” “Them that ...

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we have just published that takes an alternative approach to understanding the economy. Rather than focus on flow-based metrics of economic performance like gross domestic product, we constructed a ...

Elon Musk’s wealth has surpassed $200 billion. It would take the median U.S. worker over 4 million years to make that much. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. We’re now in America’s ...

Here are just five of the (many) ways that women have powered the global economy from the Stone Age to the present day.