President Obama will make economic inequality a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to reports, highlighting the issue's emergence as a key political issue. Less ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the global inequalities in income among the richest 10% and bottom 50% population have increased over the last two decades, while global inequalities ...

Articles, studies and U.S. Census data focusing on wealth inequality rely on the Gini coefficient. How is it calculated, and what does it tell us? Frank Cowell, an economist at the London School of ...

Inequality is now a visibility problem The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from ...

Corrado Gini (pictured) was a creative and wide-ranging sociologist, demographer and statistician—but not the sort of human being who is remembered fondly. Photo: Prospect composite Concern about ...