The Rise of the New Global Elite
F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to...
View ArticleChina’s coming fall
Lawrence Solomon Like the Soviet Union before it, much of China’s supposed boom is illusory — and just as likely to come crashing down In 1975, while I was in Siberia on a two-month trip through the...
View ArticleSeparate but unequal: Charts show growing rich-poor gap
news.yahoo.com The Great Recession and the slump that followed have triggered a jobs crisis that’s been making headlines since before President Obama was in office, and that will likely be with us for...
View ArticleThousands in India protest increasing food prices
NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of trade unionists, including those from a group linked to India’s ruling party, marched through the streets of the capital on Wednesday to protest food prices, piling...
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