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As India’s income inequality worsens beyond British-era levels, majority want to tax the rich, study reveals
A study by the World Inequality Lab has shown that Indian billionaires already own a disproportiona…
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Indian women had to kill themselves —and other bitter stories of British colonialism revealed in a podcast
While a few well-read people in India are aware of the atrocities of partition, unfortunately th…
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The UK Treasury's Robert Jenrick talks to Business Insider about inequality, productivity, and whether he'd rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck
One factor that reduces productivity is when employers find they can generate more revenues by addi…
Jim Edwards
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The Goldman prodigy behind Silicon Valley's glorious city of the future
Jan Sramek believes the solution to the housing crisis is to build a new city from scratch —…
Hugh Langley,Adam Rogers
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Rishi Sunak is worth almost $850 million, making him Britain's richest prime minister. Here's why that could be a big problem.
The new British PM's net worth is so large that he and his wife entered this year's Sunday Times Ri…
Ryan Hogg,Beatrice Nolan
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Billionaire hedge fund founder Ray Dalio thinks capitalism needs to fundamentally change
Dalio, who is giving up his day job directing investments at the hedge fund he started, shared his …
Marguerite Ward
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OPINION: Here’s what proactive ESG investing in real estate looks like
Focus on real estate is vital in these efforts, as the building and construction industry accounts …
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Pandora Papers expose secret documents of 365 leaders and officials including Tony Blair, King of Jordan, Czech PM
The leaked records reveal that many of the power players who could help bring an end to the …
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35 of the most influential hip-hop songs in music history
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, Business Insider made a playlist of the genre's most …
Callie Ahlgrim
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Biden's first 100 days are a big break with the Reagan legacy. He says jobs and families need an active state.
"Covid has now created a stormwave of support for government," Barney Frank says. Joe Biden argues …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Mark Carney says Britain is creating a generation 'like those who lived through the Great Depression'
Investment banks - ironically - have long warned that sustained inequality has a destabilising effe…
Jim Edwards
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The pandemic is transforming how Americans use public libraries, parks, and streets — and it's depriving vulnerable people of space when they need it most
Access to public space has long been fraught. In the aftermath of the pandemic, these divisions may…
Sophie Haigney
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Virtual reality is offering timely narratives on race, diversity and culture by centering the perspectives of people of color
Immersive tech such as virtual reality is not only teaching about racism, but allowing stories abou…
Grace Dean,Tola Onanuga
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CARNEY: Britain is in 'the first lost decade since the 1860s'
Carney said central bankers and governments must do more to look after those who feel left behind b…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Carpocalypse now: Lyft's founders are right - we're already in the endgame for cars
Both Europe and America have taken clear steps back from car-buying. This next chart shows sales of…
Jim Edwards
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Sir Vince Cable on saving the Lib Dems, staying fit and, why he missed a crucial Brexit vote
"The problem is everybody in Parliament, leaders, in particular, are struggling to balance the need…
Adam Payne,Adam Payne
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A border expert told us why we keep building more walls and why they won't work
Jones said that while the deterrence strategy had made journeys to the US and the European Union mo…
Barbara Tasch
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The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics are taking on the world's biggest problems. We talked to them about the wealth tax, Medicare for All, and some huge misunderstandings about migration.
Duflo: What Abhijit was talking about, which is helping the people who have been frontally hit, dis…
Richard Feloni
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The Death Of Inflation Has Made Central Banks Victims Of Their Own Success
What could cause inflation expectations to break free again, as in the 1970s? Contrasting the exper…
The Economist
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Three of the world's 10 largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots
The vision of mass unemployment created by robots isn't a guarantee, of course. The optimistic visi…