CNBC | The gap between the best and worse off Americans is growing — and economists don’t see an end in sight. The “K-shaped” economy has been top of mind for consumers, corporate leaders, policymakers and investors since the Covid pandemic drastically reshaped Americans’ financial habits almost six...
LSE Inequalities | Oxfam’s latest annual world inequality report documents how the world’s 3,000 or so billionaires increased their collective fortune by $2.5 trillion in 2025 – a sum that could eradicate extreme poverty 26 times over – while billions at the bottom end continue to go hungry. But be...
Jung & Naiv | A conversation with Gabriel Zucman about global inequality, taxing billionaires and Gabriel’s proposals for it, the political hurdles and potential countermeasures, the future of capitalism, as well as Gabriel’s academic background.
Source: Jung & Naiv.
Oxfam | Billionaire fortunes have grown at a rate three times faster than the previous five years since the election of Donald Trump in November 2024. While US billionaires have seen the sharpest growth in their fortunes, billionaires in the rest of the world have also seen double digit increases. T...
Public Services International | Commissioned by the Network of Unions for Tax Justice and the Austrian Chamber of Labour, this study provides the most comprehensive modelling to date of how a global shift to unitary taxation would reallocate multinational profits and corporate tax revenues. The rese...
The Guardian | Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal.
Source: The Guardian.