Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the ...

Two news topics show why Democratic positions often strike Republicans as half-baked. First, the Title IX crusade to increase the number of female college athletes. (The Supreme Court turned down a ...

There is massive income inequality in the in the U.S. and in the world, and everyone from political candidates to billionaires is talking about it. A recent global wealth ranking by Bloomberg ...

Some people, looking at what hedge fund managers make and what security guards make, believe the disparity to be unjust. However, it is one thing to document economic inequality, it is another to show ...

Every few months, Thomas Piketty (and/or a handful of other economists with a social conscience) will remind the world that a tiny elite is binge-eating the global economic pie while 7 billion humans ...

With great wealth and desperate struggle often coexisting only minutes away from each other, inequality can feel like a defining part of life in Connecticut. But it's not just a sense or a vibe — data ...

Why have many countries had difficulties reducing inequalities and what must be done to change this? How is gender inequality impacting the SDGs? As UN DESA gathered global experts at a recent meeting ...