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Are the Trumpistas Seeking To Shrink the IRS …or Actually Sink It?

Conservative economists have been treating the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith as their “free market” hero for quite some time now....

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Can Our Richest Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet?

So where do you see yourself living the rest of your life? The richest among us are keeping their options all open. On the one hand, our deepest...

02.04.2025 10

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Could Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It?

Why is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, hyperventilating about Social Security? Why is he inventing unhinged tales about “fraudulent”...

26.03.2025 10

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The Richest Man on Earth Better Keep His Goddamn Hands Off Social Security

The Richest Man on Earth Better Keep His Goddamn Hands Off Social Security
25.03.2025 2

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Why Do Wealthy CEOs Love Trump? He’s Distracting From Their Own Grift

Why Do Wealthy CEOs Love Trump? He’s Distracting From Their Own Grift
20.03.2025 5

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With all Eyes on Trump, Who has Time for ‘Old News’ Like Outrageous CEO Pay?

Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King has seen his annual executive rewards leap from $13 million in 2023 to $22.7 million in 2024. To keep King smiling,...

19.03.2025 9

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When It Comes to Taxing the Rich, France’s National Assembly Is Leading the Way

12.03.2025 3

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An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities

Nine of the world’s ten wealthiest billionaires now call the United States home. The remaining one? He lives in France. And that one — Bernard...

11.03.2025 8

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Let Us All Not Praise Infamous Men

We’ve become accustomed, here in the 2020s, to an endless stream of headlines that herald massive new windfalls for America’s top corporate and...

06.03.2025 8

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What Is the Political Role of White Lotus and Other ‘Eat the Rich’ Media?

26.02.2025 5

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The Guilty Pleasures of Watching the Super Rich Squirm

America’s richest have never been richer. Our over 800 billionaires ended2024 worth a combined $6.72 trillion. Today, almost two months later,...

25.02.2025 20

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How to Create a New World Without Elons

Just how concerned about billion-dollar fortunes have Americans become? Nearly half of us overall, Harris polling found last summer, would like to see...

19.02.2025 10

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How to Cut the Billionaires Behind This Coup Down to Size

17.02.2025 5

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A Coup D’état by the World's Richest, Most Sinister Men

11.02.2025 4

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Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?

The classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who...

11.02.2025 20

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On Super Bowl Sunday, Remember Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize the NFL

NFL owners opened up 20 new stadiums with the help of $4.7 billion in taxpayer funds between 1997 and 2015.

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The Super Bowl May Stand as the US' Most Visible Symbol of Plutocratic Excess

09.02.2025 6

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The Super Bowl and the Super Rich: Partners in Slime

The number of U.S. billionaires — only 13 in the first Forbes 400 count in 1982 — jumped to 66 in 1990 and 298 in 2000 and then all the way up to...

06.02.2025 10

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

28.01.2025 2

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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

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Trump’s Second Inauguration Symbolized the Reality of Oligarchic Power

23.01.2025 5

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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 4

Eurasia Review

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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

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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

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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 8

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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

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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

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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 4

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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

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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

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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

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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 3

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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 4

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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 5

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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 4

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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 3

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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

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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 5

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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 3

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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

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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 10

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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 5

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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

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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 7

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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 4

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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 8

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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 4

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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 4

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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

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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

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