A disturbing analysis of the growing inequality in this “great country” by the American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 Joseph Stiglitz.
The American Economy Is Rigged
Americans are used to thinking that their nation is special. In many ways, it is: the U.S. has by far the most Nobel Prize winners, the largest defense expenditures (almost equal to the next 10 or so countries put together) and the most billionaires (twice as many as China, the closest competitor).