In this video clip, the economist explains why the debate over income inequality has become so mean-spirited.

Sorry, Ayn Rand. Your fiction has been exposed as, well, fiction.

Our tax dollars are subsidizing both the fast-food workers who need the help and the companies' CEOs who don’t.

The conservative columnist is so outraged at plutocrats facing criticism that he's reversed his position on disclosure.

Watch clips from Bill's interview with economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

Once the wealthiest in the world, America's middle class now takes home less income than their counterparts in Canada. And America's poor are lagging even further behind.

An increasing body of research shows the government serves only the wealthy. When money talks and you have none, how can you believe in democracy?

Executive pay is out of control, but it pales next to what hedge fund managers claw out of the economy.

The connection has been "confirmed by many different studies by different investigators over different time periods."

Economists and journalists share their reactions to Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.