Tag: billionaires

“This is simply too much economic and political power in the hands of twelve people.”

Big corporations and major investors are doing fine. Billionaires are doing better than ever. But most Americans are sinking fast.

As percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980.

“Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.”

"Here's the thing: the way the system is set up, we're headed for another decade of this."

The fight happening now for the Democratic presidential nomination largely amounts to class warfare.

he New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what...

If Trump is not made stand-in for heartless Robber Barons, progressives will have squandered our greatest opportunity to name this era: Trump’s Age of Corruption.

Counting up the number of billionaires in a nation can give us a vivid anecdotal sense of how concentrated a nation’s wealth has become.

The rich determine which bitter pill to shove down the throats of the 99 percent.