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Chair: Matteo Iacoviello, Federal Reserve Board
The Employment Concentration Channel of Monetary Policy
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Majority Agenda: Make It Easy to Tax the Rich
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The wealth gap is no abstraction.
The 1% took 41% of all new wealth since 2000. The bottom 50% got just 1%.
At the conference “Inequality, Time To Act”, organized by the president of Spa.
For billionaires, $100 is pocket lint. For billions of us, it’s survival.
That gap is more than obscene. It’s dangerous.
When wealth concentrates this extremely, it doesn’t just sit there. It buys...
...hungry,” Amitabh Behar, Oxfam’s executive director, told Devex during the World Economic Forum.
Behar spoke about the United States as a core example of that trend, pointing to Pres...
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What happens to democracy when extreme wealth keeps accelerating?
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Billionaires. They should be objects of scorn rather than envy. While they ride around in their super-yachts and private jets, producing the climate-damaging pollution of entire nations, they’re do...
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