Debates about inequality often jump straight from moral outrage to policy wish lists, skipping the harder question of what a ...

Stock ownership in the United States is often framed as a path to broad prosperity, yet the reality is that most of the market's value sits in relatively few hands. Imagining what would happen if ...

The U.S. stock market generates enormous wealth, but that wealth concentrates heavily at the top. What if it didn’t? What if every American owned an equal share of publicly traded companies? It’s a ...

Both the UN and several Nobel laureates have said that political and economic inequality is a driver of high carbon emissions. The argument is that more democratic societies – where wealth, power and ...

As of 2019, Black Americans held one-sixth of the income held by white Americans and earned 50 cents less than every dollar earned by white Americans, on average. Income inequality has been linked ...

It’s a wild thought exercise and one we were curious about. And well, it turns out, when you dive deeper, the math reveals just how much wealth inequality permeates this part of American finances. The ...

The total market value of the U.S. stock market stood at approximately $62.8 trillion, as of mid-2025. The U.S. population is roughly 330 million people, as of October 2025. Dividing $62.8 trillion by ...