The bottom half of all U.S. households have 32% less wealth than in 2003. The top 1% have more than twice as much as they did then.

WSJ scoop: The Justice Department endorsed a bill forbidding large digital platforms such as Amazon and Google from favoring their own products and services over competitors’, the Biden administration’s first full-throated support of the antitrust bill

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says his universal basic income policy would prepare people for the 21st-century economy: "We need to wake America up to the fact that it is not immigrants that are causing these [job] dislocations, it's technology." #WSJFuture 

The Labor Department released its proposal to create a new type of apprenticeship that would be run by business groups, colleges and other entities, rather than the federal government.

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.9% in April

A brief history of U.S. inflation since 1775

Gas is so cheap you could drink it (but don’t)

Germany managed to keep most of its factories open during the lockdown, while the government has moved aggressively to provide support for businesses and workers. Southern Europe, meanwhile, depends more heavily on tourism, which has dried up.

Study finds "almost zero correlation" between World Bank "Doing Business" report and actual ease of doing business.

It would take 228 years for black families to amass the wealth white families have now, a new analysis says