Income Inequality - Part I

You will be hearing a lot about this as the 2016 campaign prematurely warms up, and President Obama is expected to make it a central theme of his upcoming State of the Union drone (err. I mean speech...yawn).

Unfortunately most of the noise is going to come from brainless politicians who have no relationship with rational thinking or logic.  Fortunately, there are some bright people who are digging into it in a methodical and fact based way:



I will be trying to point out the intelligent resources for thinkers amid all of the political chaff as we move on.  Look for the Economic Inequality tag.

Inequality in the Land of Equality

This is one of the best Shields and Brooks episodes in recent memory.  They are basically in agreement that income inequality is serious and unsupportable but seem uncertain about how or if government has the will to actually do anything about it.

I especially appreciated Mark Shield's observation about the last four years...95% of the US wealth flowed to the top 1% of the individuals who own 33% of the available stock.  Doesn't sound like socialism to me either, Mark!