Income Inequality Archives

The top 85 billionaires are together worth more than the bottom 4.5 billion people in the world, according to a new report from the anti-poverty group Oxfam that has gone viral ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Economy

Viral report: Top 85 billionaires worth more than bottom half of world’s individuals

Joseph Lawler -

January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Pope Francis jokes with a child as he arrives at the Sacro Cuore church in Rome, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Foreign Policy

Obama to meet Pope Francis in March

Meghashyam Mali -

January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Sometimes, government interference in the economy is the root of inequality. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Inequality caused by cronyism

Timothy P. Carney -

January 20, 2014 5:00 am

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that President Obama's job approval rating has reached a new low: 41 percent. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Columnists

Obama and liberals long on rhetoric, short on facts

Thomas Sowell -

January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Cruz: Obama’s Policies Worsen Income Inequality

Daniel Halper -

January 17, 2014 1:02 pm

Firefighters fight a blaze amidst rubble after terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have both attributed terrorism to poverty and inequality. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

Columnists

Rationalizing jihad based on ‘poverty and ignorance’ doesn’t stop terrorism

Michelle Malkin -

January 17, 2014 5:00 am

David Malpass, then the chief economist at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in November 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Big government exacerbates inequality, economist argues

Timothy P. Carney -

January 16, 2014 5:00 am

Business Roundtable President John Engler and Randall Stephenson, Roundtable chairman and CEO of AT&T. Photo by Michael Bonfigli/The Christian Science Monitor.

Economy

Washington reporters parrot Obama’s ‘income inequality’ mantra

Paul Bedard -

January 15, 2014 5:00 am

In a poker game, if one player is better than others and wins 75 percent of the time, he gets more money than the other players. If the game was left to left-wing politicians, they'd prefer to redistribute the winnings rather than to teach other players to play better poker. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Columnists

Income inequality says nothing about income fairness

Walter Williams -

January 13, 2014 5:00 am

Economy

The week ahead in economics: Understanding inequality, Ben Bernanke speaks and inflation

Joseph Lawler -

January 13, 2014 5:00 am

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Tag: Income Inequality

Viral report: Top 85 billionaires worth more than bottom half of world’s individuals

Obama to meet Pope Francis in March

Inequality caused by cronyism

Obama and liberals long on rhetoric, short on facts

Cruz: Obama’s Policies Worsen Income Inequality

Rationalizing jihad based on ‘poverty and ignorance’ doesn’t stop terrorism

Big government exacerbates inequality, economist argues

Washington reporters parrot Obama’s ‘income inequality’ mantra

Income inequality says nothing about income fairness

The week ahead in economics: Understanding inequality, Ben Bernanke speaks and inflation

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