E quity has become a familiar term on American college campuses in recent years, as well as a flash point in the nation’s culture wars. Centers for teaching and learning embrace it, as do institutes ...
I am responding to Kevin Tice’s recent letter on equity. Tice wrote: “The concept of equity is literally discrimination whereby one group is favored and treated differently than another group.” Here ...
Horizontal equity ensures that individuals with similar incomes and assets pay the same tax rate, promoting fairness in tax ...
No one is created equal – let’s get that out there from the get-go. Some people are smarter than others, some are more attractive, some are healthier, happier, some are more conscientious, kinder, ...
Stockholders' equity is the value of assets a company has remaining after eliminating all its liabilities. Companies with positive trending shareholder equity tend to be in good fiscal health. Those ...
Almost everyone understands home equity — this private equity is the percentage of your home you own after paying down your mortgage. More technically, it’s the value of an asset, like property, minus ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...