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Women distributors rake in the moolah as investors across Bharat say Mutual Funds Sahi Hai
As the equity cult travels deeper into India, many women like Jigna have found their calling as adv…
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America's economy is being wildly mismeasured
Polls are fueling "pessimism inflation" — and it's going to make the next recession even more…
George Pearkes
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Russia is eyeing big tax hikes after this month's election to pay for the war in Ukraine
Putin is widely expected to coast to reelection, after which Bloomberg reported that the country co…
Yuheng Zhan
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Self-employed people are 4 times wealthier than workers, on average
Wages for American workers have been shrinking for decades. Their self-employed peers tend to have …
Juliana Kaplan
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The wealthiest Americans now own almost all of the stock market - 89% to be exact
The stock market has seen a robust recovery after a pandemic dip. The wealthiest Americans are the …
Juliana Kaplan,Andy Kiersz
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Biden is reportedly getting even more serious about taxing the wealthy
Biden is looking at raising more revenue and has said Americans earning over $400,000 can expect hi…
Juliana Kaplan
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These 2 charts show how the racial wealth gap has gotten even wider over the years
White households in total held $103.4 trillion of wealth in the last quarter of 2020, a $9.58 trill…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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One chart shows how the top 1% of Americans have grown their wealth in the past 20 years
The top 1% of US households held $38.61 trillion of wealth in the last quarter of 2020, a $4 trilli…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Europe's wealthy are falling behind - London just dropped out of the top 10 cities for very high net worth individuals
London has been a top 10 city for the very high net worth since 2004, Wealth-X finds. But a rough y…
Juliana Kaplan
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Wealth per adult: India growing 2X that of global average but still 1/5th in real terms
Indian wealth per adult has been growing 8.7% per annum from the start of the millennium and was at…
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History gives us a clue as to how we can solve global wealth inequality
Massive wealth inequality is a fairly recent invention. Understanding our past can help us better d…
Paul Constant
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Richer countries have most available vaccine doses as the global recovery becomes K-shaped
Vaccines have been unevenly distributed, according to Bloomberg. The wealthiest countries are vacci…
Hillary Hoffower
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How universal basic income would work best — and it might not be monthly cash payments, a Nobel prize winner's new research suggests
The longest-running universal basic income study suggests a lump-sum payment, rather than monthly c…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Billionaires saw their wealth grow by 62% during the pandemic, while workers' wages grew by 10%
Around the country, millions of Americans are scrambling to get their taxes together. Many will pay…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Chile redrafted its constitution to help end the nation's wealth gap. Here's how the fragile process is going and what we can learn from it.
Chile confirms that "things can change, and sometimes very quickly," when those in power lose their…
Paul Constant
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Meet the typical millionaire: College-educated people in their 50s and 60s who own a home and lots of stocks
Over 12% of American families are millionaires, many of whom are ages 55 to 74, per a new Federal R…
Noah Sheidlower
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A 2% global tax on all billionaires could raise $250 billion annually, a research report backed by a Nobel Prize-winning economist says
The EU Tax Observatory estimated that a 2% global minimum tax would raise close to $250 billion ann…
Grace Dean
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The rich are getting poorer
The rich are still very rich. But a Bloomberg report finds that they've lost about $1 trillion this…
Juliana Kaplan
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The bottom half of American families hold just 2% of the country's wealth — while the top 1% of families have a third
The bottom half of Americans haven't even recovered from the Great Recession, while the wealthiest …
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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Here's how much the world's wealthiest, middle class, and poorest make in a year
The new World Inequality Report found that the wealth gap between the world's poorest and richest i…