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The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets

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The Nation

Chuck Collins

Ten Ways You Are Being Burned by Billionaires

As a co-editor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail (and a few complaints). Greg B. recently wrote in, “None of my problems exist as a result...

20.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

10 Ways Billionaires Are Making Your Life Worse and 5 Ways to Fight Back

10 Ways Billionaires Are Making Your Life Worse and 5 Ways to Fight Back
15.10.2025 3

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

The Billionaires Have Been Sucking the Rest of Us Dry Since 1989—And It's Worse Than You Think

03.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Meet the “Coal-igarch” Jim Grech, CEO of Peabody Energy

05.09.2025 3

The Nation

Chuck Collins

Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch

14.07.2025 3

The Nation

Chuck Collins

This Is What Oligarchy Looks Like

05.04.2025 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Trump and Musk Are Making It Harder for the IRS to Catch Wealthy Tax Cheats

29.03.2025 3

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Dismantling The IRS Only Helps Billionaire Tax Dodgers – OpEd

The Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE have begun dismantling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), beginning with 6,700 layoffs. Their...

28.03.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Chuck Collins

These Activists Are Right: The World Doesn’t Need Any More Private Jets

26.03.2025 7

The Nation

Chuck Collins

World leaders at Davos need to tax millionaires like me. The fate of our planet and democracy depends on it

The ultra-rich pose a threat to our democratic institutions—and the problem will deepen if extreme wealth is left unchecked.

23.01.2025 5

Fortune

Chuck Collins

Fossil Fuel 'Oil-Garchs' Reap Billions in Payback for Trump Support

17.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Billionaire Round-Up, 2024

At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, according to an analysis of the...

09.01.2025 6

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

Billionaire Round-Up, 2024

At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, according to an analysis of...

08.01.2025 100

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

2024: The Year of the Billionaire

At this point, just 813 U.S. billionaires hold a combined $6.7 trillion in wealth while 15 of them each have over $100 billion for a combined...

04.01.2025 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Have Subsidized Project 2025 and Climate Denial

After the hottest summer in recorded human history — along with Hurricanes Helene and Milton, flooding and wildfires — why isn’t there a greater...

13.12.2024 6

Truthout

Chuck Collins

Real-Life Scrooges Are Hoarding Charitable Donations in Foundations and Funds

Current rules enable wealthy donors to bank their tax break immediately, but the donated funds may remain sidelined for decades.

05.12.2024 8

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

How Billionaire Investors Are Disrupting the U.S. Housing Market

The over-focus on expanding housing supply through for-profit development misses a key contributor to the housing crisis: the concentration of...

24.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

Meet the Billionaire Investors Behind the US Housing Affordability Crisis

This is not your grandparent’s gentrification, but rather a hyper-gentrification fueled by concentrated wealth driving up land and housing costs,...

23.10.2024 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

801 U.S. billionaires hold a combined $6.22 trillion in wealth

There are now 801 billionaires based in the United States with a combined wealth totaling $6.22 trillion, according to an Institute for Policy...

23.09.2024 3

CounterPunch

Chuck Collins

The Super Rich Are Getting Richer

Despite a decline in the total number of U.S. billionaires, the total wealth of the exclusive nine-figure-club grew by $500 billion over the last...

18.09.2024 20

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins