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Will Crypto’s Roaring 20s Lead to a Second Great Depression?

Will Crypto’s Roaring 20s Lead to a Second Great Depression?
28.01.2025 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Does a Roaring Twenties Boom Now Beckon?

Life in the United States has never been better — if your personal fortune stretches well into the thousands of millions. Our new year has dawned...

28.01.2025 8

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

Trump’s Second Inauguration Symbolized the Reality of Oligarchic Power

Trump’s Second Inauguration Symbolized the Reality of Oligarchic Power
23.01.2025 5

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Biden Was Right About Oligarchy – OpEd

Biden Was Right About Oligarchy – OpEd

Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of

23.01.2025 3

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

What Americans Now Need Most: A Farewell to Grand Fortune

Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,...

22.01.2025 8

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

Of the Plutocrats, By the Plutocrats, For the Plutocrats

“Every morning,” the billionaire Marc Andreessen smiled a few weeks after Donald Trump’s re-election this past November, “I wake up happier...

14.01.2025 20

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

The Richest Have Never Been Richer as Trump Arrives to Make Them Richer Still

Overall, the world’s 500 richest ended 2024 worth a combined $9.8 trillion. Some 34 percent of the $1.5 trillion they gained over the course of the...

07.01.2025 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

What Would Surprise America’s Rich in 2025? Not Getting Richer

The new year has begun with old news: The world is continuing to become colossally more unequal — with the United States leading the way. In 2024,...

07.01.2025 9

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

The Public Anger at Corporate Health has Never Been Higher

Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s...

17.12.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

2024 Was a Great Year for the Super Rich, But What About the Rest of Us?

Of the world’s 15 largest personal fortunes, 14 currently belong to Americans. All these 14 will be stepping into 2025 with at least $100 billion...

16.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Anger Explodes At Health Care CEOS – OpEd

Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care system...

13.12.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Was CEO's Murder a Killing in the Class War?

After UnitedHealthcare's Brian Thompson was gunned down, America’s health care powers feel and fear the U.S. public’s anger now more than ever.

09.12.2024 5

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Super-Rich Are Gobbling Up Earth’s Future and Our Leaders Are Letting Them

Billions upon billions give our world’s wealthiest an overabundance of mind-boggling political power, and right now they’re wielding that power to...

05.12.2024 20

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Climate Finance Plan Leaders Won’t Consider at COP29? Tax the Rich

A global 2% annual tax on billionaire wealth could raise $250 billion per year from just the world’s 100 richest families.

19.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

In Baku, at the Latest Global Confab on Climate, Hand-Wringing Abounds

The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered...

19.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

From Taxing the Rich to Defending Unions, the Best Defense Against Trump Will Be Offense

The super rich who backed the Republican president-elect must think they have us exactly where they want us. Now is the best time to turn the tables.

15.11.2024 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

No Time To Play Just Defense

With Donald Trump about to re-enter the White House and his sidekicks about to assume control over Congress, America’s progressives are once again...

12.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

One Person, One Vote, One Joke…On Democracy – OpEd

As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...

05.11.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

One Person, One Vote, One Joke…on Democracy

As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...

05.11.2024 3

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

Will America Go To War Under Trump? – OpEd

By Jonathan Power A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump....

30.10.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Can America’s ‘Self-Made’ Men Make A President? – OpEd

UBS, the giant Swiss private bank, has been tracking newcomers to the ranks of the world’s billionaire class for going on a decade now. The latest...

30.10.2024 1

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Can America’s ‘Self-Made’ Men Make a President?

This new Biden-era federal refusal to automatically do Big Tech’s bidding has energized billionaires once content to pay relatively little...

29.10.2024 5

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

How Did Elon Musk Become The Richest Person On Earth? – OpEd

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes....

23.10.2024 9

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Two of Musk’s commercial operations, Tesla and SpaceX, have received billions in American taxpayer support. The federal government, Politico points...

22.10.2024 4

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth

Now it's time to tax it back to where much of it came from.

19.10.2024 4

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Insurance Companies Are Not Good Neighbors to Have in a Climate Crisis

Major insurers are denying legitimate claims following extreme weather events while underwriting fossil fuels and lining their CEOs’ pocketbooks.

16.10.2024 6

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: “Claim Denied”

Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of...

15.10.2024 3

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

Must Higher Education Always Genuflect Before America’s Highest Incomes?

America’s wealthiest have towered over the rest of us for quite some time now, and most all of us have over recent decades gained at least a little...

08.10.2024 7

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

The Only Real Shortcut to Long-Term Security: Greater Equality

Have our world’s super rich become absolutely paranoid about the future? Or do they, deep down, understand that our exceedingly unequal global...

01.10.2024 1

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

The Ultra-Rich Are Running Scared, for Good Reason

Budding entrepreneurs worldwide are devoting their time and talents to making our Earth as safe as possible for our planet’s top 1% that now holds...

29.09.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Could 2025 End Up A Nightmare For Our Tax-Averse Rich? – OpEd

We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on our tax...

25.09.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Could 2025 End Up a Nightmare for Our Tax-Averse Rich?

We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on our tax...

24.09.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

Let Our Tax-the-Rich Battle Begin!

If we play our cards right, we might finally see the wealthy start paying their fair share in 2025.

21.09.2024 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Here's a Good Topic for Candidates to Debate: Taxing the Filthy Rich

“The wealthiest of the wealthy have figured out how to get richer and richer and richer and richer in ways that just don’t show up on a tax form,"...

15.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Are You Ready for Some Private Equity Football?

The billionaires who run the world’s most phenomenally profitable sport have just decided to “share the wealth” — with the greediest of their...

10.09.2024 10

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

When the Wealthy Perish at Sea We Mourn, But When the Poorest Perish We Yawn

3,000 deaths of migrants made barely a ripple in most of the world’s major news media. But this summer one single tragedy on the Mediterranean has...

01.09.2024 6

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

A World Without Artworks That Auction Off for $80 Million?

Fine art has been a wonderful vehicle for “wealth signaling among the ultra-rich,” the Duke University sociologist Lisa Keister recently noted,...

26.08.2024 1

CounterPunch

Sam Pizzigati

The Younger Wealthy’s Alternative Approach to Investments Doesn’t Extend to Taxation

But both the younger and older rich want to pay as little as possible in taxes on the income their investments—in whatever category—end up creating...

17.08.2024 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Coming Tax-The-Rich Rumble In Rio – OpEd

For the richest among us, life on Earth can sometimes get rather boring. But worry not for our world’s deepest pockets. At least five firms...

07.08.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati