#Economic inequality

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Note that widening wealth and income inequality is a non-partisan trend. One of the core goals of the Federal Reserve's monetary policies of the past 9 years is to generate the "wealth effect": by pushing the valuations of stocks and bonds

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This critique reveals the unintended consequences of UBI. Readers have been asking me what I thought of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as the solution to the systemic problem of jobs being replaced by automation. To answer this question, I

Authored by Ben Hunt via Epsilon Theory blog, "If we can agree that trickle down is just a ruse invented to trick the gullible, we should also agree that any and all QE is robbery in plain daylight." Out of all the animals we keep on our “farm”, chickens are the only ones that bring me no joy.

The gender pay gap is an issue all around the world and the UK is certainly no exception. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, the difference between men and women's earnings is currently largest in London, where a full-time male employee gets an average of 14.6 percent more per hour than his

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, Billionaire founder of top hedge fund Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio got where he is by having keen insight into both human nature and economic trends. Occasionally, he shares some of his wisdom publicly. In one of his recent articles, Dalio