European Central Bank expected to trim bond-buying stimulus: Reuters
House speaker Ryan says tax reform now faces its biggest challenges: The Hill
US new home sales surge, reaching the highest level in 10 years: Reuters
Sep. orders for US durable goods rise the most in three months: USA Today
Is the latest rise in Treasury yields just more noise? Alhambra Investments
Singapore central bank chief: global investors underrate risk: Bloomberg
How did Australia avoid a recession for the last 25 years? News.com.au
Economic costs of climate change will rise for US in decades ahead: GAO
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), an economics professor at New York University, will remind many of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century with this comprehensive and thorough study of the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth in the United States. Wolff confirms the middle class’s increasingly precarious standing and the rise of income inequality. As to who the rich are in America, he shows that they are overwhelmingly white, married, highly educated, older, and self-employed, most likely in finance or business and professional services. And the remaining 99%? Their incomes have stagnated since the 1970s, despite the compensatory addition of many women to the workforce and huge increases in household debt levels—the latter, Wolff writes, just to maintain living standards, not to “binge” on consumption.