Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules, but two new studies say declining affordability is due more to ...

For many Americans, the national debt—now approaching $30 trillion—is an afterthought that must always take a backseat to the social and economic problems of the day. Now, it's the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tells us that wealth inequality is at grotesque and immoral levels. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a plan to tax everyone lots and lots to solve this. The slight ...

The divergence between rich and poor is growing in some regions, creating affordability problems and straining fiscal budgets. America is increasingly the land of haves and have-nots, but the problem ...

This article originally was published on The Conversation. In a recent issue of The Economist, President Barack Obama set out four major economic issues that his successor must tackle. As he put it: " ...

Capitalism has a public relations problem. While many will grudgingly admit that capitalism, the economic system based on private property and free trading, yields faster rates of economic growth, ...

When Sarah Kaplan, professor of gender and the economy at the University of Toronto, recently got invited to speak on a panel where she was the only woman, she immediately wrote back saying this was ...

The G-20 presidency of South Africa ended last November with the release of a report on global inequality. It was authored by a G-20 committee of independent experts chaired by Nobel Prize winner ...