Tag: Capital
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Wealth Inequality Across Age and Class in 2019
The top 10 percent of ever age group owns almost all the group's wealth.
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Wealth Inequality Across Education and Class in 2019
Every age and education group has the same sort of inequality.
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Wealth Inequality Across Race and Class in 2019
Wealth continues to be heavily concentrated at the top.
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Millionaires and Billionaires Own 79% of All Household Wealth
The wealthiest among us owns almost everything, once again.
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More Bizarre Arguments About the COVID Economic Response
ProPublica got snowed. It happens to the best of us, even David Dayen.
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A Bizarre Argument About the COVID Economic Response
Is cutting interest rates really a corporate giveaway?
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The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
The top decile disparities drive almost the entire racial wealth gap.
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How To Think About Corporate Bailouts Correctly
Get that equity. Get that bread. Get those bands. Now. Now. Now.
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Some Economic Responses to the Coronavirus Recession
Some thoughts on how to respond to this recession in particular.
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Fareed Zakaria Is Completely Ignorant About the Nordics
Zakaria fakes his way through another essay with predictable results.
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Bloomberg Is Wealthier Than The Bottom 125 Million Americans
Other estimates suggest the real number is over 150 million people.
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Finland's Economy Really Is Highly Socialized
It is not just ordinary capitalism with a big welfare state. It's more.
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The UBI Already Exists. It Is Just Unevenly Distributed.
Capitial's share provides more than enough money to finance a universal basic income.
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Labour's Inclusive Ownership Funds Should Be Fine
The Financial Times forecasts doom and gloom where there isn't any.
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Don’t Blame the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend
The state can easily close solve its budget woes with ordinary taxes.
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Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.
America is a hideously unequal place with a large propertyless underclass.
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The Difficulty of Using the Firm in Socialist Policy
Firm boundaries are arbitrary, which complicates firm-based socialism.
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Bernie Sanders Gives the Nod to Funds Socialism
A Meidner plan for America. Here we go. Here we fucking go!
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Fresh Support for Social Wealth Fund Development
Roosevelt Institute has kind words to say about Inclusive Ownership Funds.
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Wealth Inequality Across Class and Race in 5 Graphs
America has a white upper class and multiracial lower class.