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Piketty’s erroneous data

Chris Edwards · April 15, 2022 12:00 am
Beltway Confidential

Why intellectuals hate capitalism

Rainer Zitelmann · June 30, 2020 6:35 pm
While Thomas Piketty's socialist allegiances are self-evident, much of the media take them as gospel. (AP Photo/Janerik Henriksson, File) Beltway Confidential

Opposing tax reform, the media embrace Thomas Piketty’s socialist deception

Tom Rogan · December 15, 2017 9:27 pm
Measuring wealth by deliberately ignoring how we redistribute it isn't going to give us the right answer, is it? (iStock by Getty Images) Beltway Confidential

The billionaire bonanza: Wealth inequality isn’t quite as bad as liberals claim

Tim Worstall · November 9, 2017 11:59 pm
It's no longer the case that nearly all of the new income since the financial crisis accrued to the wealthy. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Economy

New data: 2015 was the best year for the 99 percent since 1999

Joseph Lawler · July 1, 2016 2:16 pm
At the first Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders called for "tuition-free college," echoing Barack Obama's free-junior-college proposal. (AP Photo/John Locher) Opinion

Democrats’ debate: No solution for economic inequality, no interest in economic growth

Michael Barone · October 19, 2015 4:01 am
A new study used a series of simulations to assess the results of raising the top rate to 50 percent and found "the resulting effects on overall income inequality are exceedingly modest." (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) Beltway Confidential

If you really, really want to reduce economic inequality …

Michael Barone · October 5, 2015 8:14 pm
The share of total U.S. income earned by the top 1 percent increased from 20.1 percent in 2013 to 21.2 percent in 2014, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez reported Monday. (Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) Economy

Top 1 percent share of income grew in 2014 despite new Obama taxes

Joseph Lawler · June 29, 2015 2:32 pm
There is "a steady decline in support for redistributive government," notes Thomas Edsall, the longtime Washington Post reporter now writing for the New York Times. Columnists

Why Americans oppose economic redistribution despite income inequality

Michael Barone · May 7, 2015 9:01 am
In this June 30, 2014 file photo, French economist Thomas Piketty speaks during his seminar at the Almedalen political week in Visby on the island of Gotland, in Sweden. (AP Photo/Janerik Henriksson, File) Economy

Piketty seeks to clarify his view of inequality

Joseph Lawler · March 9, 2015 8:32 pm
(iStock image) Economy

The 1 percent’s income drops following tax increases

Joseph Lawler · January 27, 2015 5:25 pm
(iStock) Beltway Confidential

Obama’s inequality message has a flawed basis

Jason Russell · January 21, 2015 9:01 pm
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