It's not just the return of giant glasses and leggings.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Trends - Brief article

Have you noticed how many of the unfortunate trends of recent years, though they may have had earlier roots, really took off in the 1980s? Most notable was the explosion of greed and selfishness that inspired so many talented young people to flock to Wall Street for no other purpose than to get rich. But income inequality, too, would take a giant step in the '80s in its growth to extremes not...