wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that…

Six months ago, the Wall Street Journal shared this stunning graphic from University of California-Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman. In 2024, the Journal noted, the wealth of America’s…

It’s been a full decade now since I first predicted — warned, to be a bit more precise — that America would have its…

Bernie Sanders and Bill Gates don’t agree on many things, but they both want to see a “robot tax,” a special levy…

Is centi-billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos now writing the paper’s editorials himself? Of course not. But the Post editorial board’s recent…

The concentration of America’s wealth has hit still another terrifying new milestone

The rich won’t be paying their fair share of taxes as long as our tax system speeds wealth’s concentration

The maldistribution of America’s income and wealth has reached levels that our conventional economic stats have trouble revealing

America’s 12 wealthiest now control $1 trillion of wealth. The only practical way to address this extreme wealth concentration: a tax on accumulated grand fortune

As we emerge from this pandemic, substantial tax increases are inevitable. Central to the program should be a tax that limits the hoarding of wealth by the billionaire class