Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Picketty’

Papal inequality tweet sends right-wing commentators into flap

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

Pope Francis has put out a tweet against inequality which has conservative economic commentators fuming. On April 28, Pope Francis posted to his Twitter feed: “Iniquitas radix malorum.” In English this translates to “Inequality is the root of social evil”. The papal tweet came only days after French economist Thomas Picketty’s bestseller “Capital in the Read more