Sports Teams: The ‘Everlasting Tax Shelter’ for Billionaires
July 14, 2021 | A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams — and their heirs — to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.
Articles by Bob Lord
America’s Future: Trillionaire Trust Fund Babies?
February 17, 2021 | Billionaire wealth is exploding. They’re passing that wealth to heirs and heiresses virtually tax-free.
There’s Plenty of Wealth to Go Around — It Just Doesn’t
March 20, 2019 | We've "grown the pie" massively since the 1980s, but it hasn't resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.
Black America’s Vanishing Wealth Is Bad for All Americans
January 30, 2019 | The racial wealth divide gives billionaires more power over all of us. The answer? Reparations.
Innovation Used to Benefit Workers. Can It Again?
December 19, 2018 | Machines can make jobs better, but a tiny class of bosses uses them to make jobs disappear. It doesn't have to be this way.
Can the Next Congress Chase Down America’s Runaway Wealth?
November 20, 2018 | The last Congress ensured that America's wealth will concentrate ever more rapidly at the very top — unless the next one does something about it.
Men: We’ve Heard About Assaults. Speak Up About Them.
September 28, 2018 | Women who report assault deserve to hear that we believe them, and that we can back them up — because we've heard the other side.
America 2018: Even More Gilded Than America 1918
September 26, 2018 | Wealth is more concentrated now than it was in John D. Rockefeller's day.