Opinion Pages (Krugman & Brooks)

The Piketty Panic by Paul Krugman “Mr. Piketty is hardly the first economist to point out that we are experiencing a sharp rise in inequality, or even to emphasize the contrast between slow income growth for most of the population and soaring incomes at the top…” – http://nyti.ms/1ry6lxE; The Piketty phenomenon by David Brooks “Many people join the political left driven by a concern for the poor. But, over the past several years, the Democratic Party has talked much more about the middle class than the poor…” – http://nyti.ms/1ryaZM7, published by The New York Times, indicated by Arminio Fraga Neto.