How to Identify Financial Statement Fraud: Key Signs and Methods

Spotting financial statement fraud is crucial. Learn key signs and detection methods to protect your investments from risky ...
Stars Insider on MSN

Is wealth inequality leading to a class war?

For much of recorded history, there have always been vast disparities in wealth between various populations, and this has ...
The Guardian

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% ‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people Fewer than 60,000 people – ...
Forbes

Income Inequality Is Surging In The U.S., New Oxfam Report Shows

Bilingual sign on door of frozen food aisle, We accept SNAP food stamp cards, Walgreens, Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The richest 1% of ...
Common Dreams

ITEP Statement: House’s Recklessly Expensive Tax Bill Would Expand Inequality

Founded in 1980, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization, based in Washington, DC, that focuses on federal and state tax policy. ITEP's ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, study finds

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...
Pew Research Center

2. Factors seen as contributing to economic inequality

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...
Oxfam America

The facts about global wealth inequality

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...
The New York Times

Is Inequality the Key to the Climate Change Debate?

In his new book, the economist Thomas Piketty argues that the world can’t stop climate change without addressing issues of inequality. By Manuela Andreoni Climate change wasn’t a big topic in the ...
MIT Technology Review

What will AI mean for economic inequality?

If we’re not careful, we could see widening gaps within countries and between them. Prominent AI researchers expect the arrival of artificial general intelligence anywhere between “the next couple of ...
International Monetary Fund

Global Inequalities

Global inequalities are in bad shape and mostly do not appear to be getting better. Disparities today are about the same as they were in the early 20th century, and the pandemic continues to make ...