From Daniel Greenfield’s excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Inequality of Access: Excerpts: When government is big, then true inequality is not of wealth, but of political access. Money can buy you access, or as the recently released Orlando Findlayter discovered,
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from Jeff Jacoby in Townhall, Income Gap? Not Many are Obsessed Excerpts: How many shared Obama’s view that the gap between rich and poor is the issue that should concern us most? Four percent. Obsessing over other people’s riches isn’t
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from The National Review Online Matthew Continetti writes The Inequality Business: Excerpts: It’s a funny thing about the inequality debate that has consumed the American intelligentsia for the past several years: The individuals who are most interested in identifying, describing,
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Poverty of Inequality in Sultan Knish. Excerpts: If you believe the left, the leading economic problem that Americans face today is not a lack of jobs or the cost of living, but a crisis of CEO salaries. If
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James Pethokoukis writes Obama’s big inequality speech: short on facts and vision in the AEIdeas: excerpt: Here’s the bottom line: America’s pro-market turn some three decades ago reversed what then seemed like unstoppable national decline. (Nations that didn’t make that
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I have posted several article seeking better information about the myths commonly accepted about the gaps in income and wealth distributions. Some of this analysis in seen here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Daniel Greenfield in his excellent
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Friedrich Hayek wrote, “Equality of the general rules of law and conduct… is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with
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