America “remains in a new Gilded Age,” concludes New York Times reporter Annie Lowrey after taking a look at updated inequality data from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty.  (I think we are supposed to assume this is a bad thing.) Although the Great Recession temporarily depressed the top 1%’s income share, those earners saw their 2012 … Continue reading The 1% are again getting richer. Should the 99% really care?