Stock ownership in the United States is often framed as a path to broad prosperity, yet the reality is that most of the market's value sits in relatively few hands. Imagining what would happen if ...

One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality ...

The United States is generally considered a wealthy country by many people in the world. But the country’s unequal wealth distribution is overlooked by those just considering the national wealth ...

Global real estate investment manager Hines officially launched Hines Private Wealth Solutions this week. The move is meant to capitalize on the firm’s existing offerings for individual investors to ...

In this article, we will discuss the 20 countries with the best distribution of wealth. If you want to skip the detailed analysis, click 5 Countries with Best Distribution of Wealth. The distribution ...

Editor’s Note: Wednesday’s story, featuring economist Robert Lerman’s take on the distribution of wealth in the United States, has generated a flood of comments. Lerman has agreed to respond to many ...

A familiar Hollywood trope: a technologically advanced, futuristic society riven by inequality. There’s the superelite sliver who enjoys the fruits of progress—and then there’s everybody else, as seen ...

If Charles Dickens's Victorian London had more income equality, Ebenezer Scrooge wouldn't have been such a miser. That's the implication of new research that suggests inequality makes wealthy people ...

On the Oct. 10, 2011, edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, former Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, took aim at the financial sector in an interview that focused on the Occupy Wall Street ...

Wealth and asset management executives are entering the next year with a distinctly optimistic stance on growth, even as ...

Anxiety about inflation, among citizens and politicians alike, has been peaking recently. In the United States, the year-on-year increase in consumer prices reached 7.5% in January, the highest rate ...