This chart by Pavlina Tcherneva, an economics professor at Bard University, shows a simple yet shocking trend of how bad income inequality has gotten. The graphic illustrates the distribution of ...

On Tuesday morning, the United States Census Bureau released its annual report on income and poverty in the United States. Ostensibly, it didn’t contain many news-grabbing headlines. In 2013, the ...

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of The Daily Signal. Send an email to Rob. This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans ...

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent has captured more than half of income growth during periods of economic expansion in the 21st century. If more people knew that, would they support ...

Quicken makes tracking business expenses more effective by using reports to make it possible to quickly view your financial bottom line. The income and expense report creates a graph that shows your ...

Which countries have escaped the middle-income trap? The forces of economic convergence are powerful, but not all powerful. Poor countries tend to grow faster than rich ones, largely because imitation ...

This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Here’s a fantastic chart that basically explains all of economic history. It was annotated by James Plunkett, and it’s based on a chart from ...

We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of weeks. Our last installment looked at stagnating middle-class incomes. Today, we look at both ...

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Realty Income Corporation’s current yield spread relative to risk-free rates is near a record low in about 20 years. Historical data suggest a positive correlation between yield spread and future ...