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The Formula
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Analysis: We Should Rethink Who Funds Basic Services
Wealthy Barrington, Rhode Island, and needy Providence provide a case in point.
Economics: (Groucho) Marx on Fiscal Cliffs
Via Imprint’s J. J. Sedelmaier: With the fiscal cliff negotiations theatrical and occasionally farcical, it comes as some…
Cloudy With No Chance of Normal
A full recovery is nowhere in sight. So beware economists who use a false dawn to push awful policies.
Golden Dawn Doing Irony Now
Among the new breed of politicians with a sense of humor, go ahead and add, reluctantly, Greek Nazis.…
Latin America is Increasingly Middle Class
A few hours ago, the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) issued the encouraging…
Alarming post-Sandy Factoid: The National Flood Insurance Program is Still Broke
If you ever want to have a really strange conversation with a politician, ask about floods. Rising water…