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How the house price boom at the turn of the century slashed social mobility
Housing

How the house price boom at the turn of the century slashed social mobility

House prices surged between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. A new study from the Institute of Fiscal Studies breaks down how it drove inequality among the next generation

The UK’s ‘millionaire exodus’ is a humongous myth. Here’s why it keeps rearing its ugly head
Wealth

The UK’s ‘millionaire exodus’ is a humongous myth. Here’s why it keeps rearing its ugly head

Like clockwork, a major fiscal event will trigger warnings of millionaire flight. They aren’t real – so why are they so persistent?

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?
Elon Musk

What could Elon Musk do with $1 trillion?

Electric car company Tesla has offered the South African billionaire a performance-based pay package worth US $1 trillion (£761,910,000,000)

I’m an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It’s survival
Chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé

I’m an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice. It’s survival

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?
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Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?

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We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world’s money while the poorest suffer
Adriana Abdenur

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world’s money while the poorest suffer

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win
Howard Reed and Martin O’Neill

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win

What do bankers think of a windfall tax on the banks? We went to the City of London to find out
Bank tax

What do bankers think of a windfall tax on the banks? We went to the City of London to find out

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy
Wealth

Get rich and die trying: Typical Brit must save entire lifetime of earnings to become wealthy

Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed
FIlm

Forget Xenomorphs: The real threat in Alien was wage inequality and corporate greed

World will soon see first trillionaires as wealth of billionaires yet again on the rise: ‘Obscene’
Trillionaires

World will soon see first trillionaires as wealth of billionaires yet again on the rise: ‘Obscene’