In the United States, the richest 1% controlled more than 40% of the wealth in 2016. The last time wealth inequality gaps were this wide was during the Great Depression. You don’t have to just assume things are unequal. Global economists actually track the gap and tally it annually. The Gini Index is an economics […]
One of the most worrying socioeconomic trends to capture the attention of finance experts is the steady rise of income inequality. A recent paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research revealed that income inequality has increased unimpeded since the 1980s. According to this research, the top 1% own about 40% of the wealth in […]
