menu_open Columnists
Rick Baum

Rick Baum

CounterPunch

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Wealth Inequality and California’s Wealth Tax Proposal

2025 was a year in which the ten wealthiest did quite well for themselves as did the rest of their cohorts among both the wealthiest .1% and the...

22.04.2026 4

CounterPunch

Rick Baum

Increase in Social Security Payments Undercut by Greater Medicare Deduction

Almost a year ago, I wrote a CounterPunch article on how the social security cost of living increase was eroded by higher charges for Medicare...

02.12.2025 9

CounterPunch

Rick Baum

Trump’s “Consistent” Views on Federal Reserve Head Jerome Powell and the Wealth of the Wealthiest

The head of the Federal Reserve Board has been viewed as the second most powerful person in the government. In theory, this person heads the body that...

16.07.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rick Baum

Has There Been a Bipartisan Effort to Increase the Wealth of the .1%?

The ability of the wealthy to accumulate more wealth has its ups and downs. However, as shown by the Federal Reserve Board’s (the Fed) Distribution...

08.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Rick Baum