Is it normal for a few people to be obscenely wealthy and the rest of us dirt poor?
Bob Bradley
With the Clinton years an even faster spike in inequality than Reaganism. What explains the dip in 2000?
Jeff Sharlet
This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.
