Tag: billionaires
Heard about buy-borrow-die? Meet buy-hold for decades-sell
We don’t need to just close the buy-borrow-die loophole. We desperately need to shut the buy-hold for decades-sell loophole just as firmly.
Billionaire wealth hits $10 trillion as Sanders warns of oligarchic rule
As the world’s wealthiest accumulate unprecedented riches, concerns mount over the impact of wealth inequality on democracy and society.
The Oligarchic Dozen: Top 12 US billionaires amass $2 trillion in...
The wealth of America’s richest 12 billionaires has doubled since 2020, raising concerns about democracy, climate, and economic inequality.
Billionaires are not going to save us
It’s time to see that projects of survival and solidarity among those struggling the most are our only true hope for a future that will otherwise be ever more perilous.
New era of inequality: Billionaires pay less in taxes than the...
Economist Gabriel Zucman's analysis reveals that for the first time, U.S. billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans, sparking a renewed debate on wealth tax.
Should billionaires exist?
If capitalism were working properly, billionaires would have gone the way of the dodo.
Billionaire Heirs: The accelerating $5.2 trillion wealth transfer
Without robust wealth and inheritance taxes the children and grandchildren of today's billionaires will dominate our future politics, economy, culture, and philanthropy."
Sick of outrageously excessive CEO compensation?
America’s top health care execs would rather we not.
The end of the line for the raunchy billionaire who set...
But who set the stage for that billionaire?
We must not dance, Harry Belafonte understood, to a billionaire beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.