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How Stock Buybacks Turbocharged the Wealth of Google's Billionaire Co-Founders

How Stock Buybacks Turbocharged the Wealth of Google's Billionaire Co-Founders

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23.10.2026 7

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Bob Lord

Trump Has Clubbed Our Tax Code Back Into the Stone Age—Can Congress Fix It?​

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27.09.2026 10

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The Washington Post’s Owner Really Doesn’t Want You to Know His Effective Tax Rate

The Washington Post has, over the past few months, run at least five editorials or opinion pieces railing against federal or state tax increases....

25.02.2026 30

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Jeff Bezos, Gutting the Washington Post, Really Doesn't Want You to Know His Effective Tax Rate

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment...

20.02.2026 50

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Trillionaires at the Gates

30.12.2025 40

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Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth

I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post...

30.12.2025 50

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Be Outraged: Your True Income Tax Rate May be Triple the Rate the Richest Billionaires Pay

“If poor people knew how rich rich people are,” Chris Rock once quipped, “there would be riots in the streets.” So, I wonder, what would...

09.12.2025 40

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A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation

The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San Marco...

05.08.2025 50

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How Billionaire Tax Avoidance Works: The Case of Jeff Bezos

30.07.2025 40

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Bob Lord