Tag Archives: Emmanual Saez

TPP to Piketty – The Slow War

Trans  Pacific Partnership, Retirement Security, and Piketty income inequality are backdrop to slow but very real warfare. The TPP issue is not an isolated topic but part of deep background to an unspoken but real efforts to change the structure … Continue reading

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Records of Inequality – Footprints in the sand 1

George Orwell missed by 4 years. Massive social changes have happened over the last 30 years. Our hugely powerful American society strongly differs from what it was then. This is the first of a series that will look at some … Continue reading

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Overstated gains? Income Inequality-4

The upper 1% incomes are blamed for our economic troubles, but the upper 0.01% are probably to blame Income inequality is a dangerous fact in American life, but there is a certain feel to the available data that make it … Continue reading

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