The Uber-Rich’s Preferred Means of Fending Off the Masses

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Jan 22, 2020 If you’ve got more money than you can spend, you can spend your extra wealth on guarding your extra wealth. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The End of the Age of Billionaires

Josh Hoxie / OtherWords Feb 11, 2019 Serious proposals are on the table to address the deepening divide between the uber-rich and the rest of us. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Oct 22, 2018 Their greed will crush society and the ecosystem unless they are driven from power. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Real Motive Behind the GOP Tax Plan

Robert Reich / RobertReich.Org Nov 13, 2017 Selling the Trump-Republican proposal should be awkward for an administration that has made patriotism its central theme. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Democratic Party Is Once Again a ‘Plaything of the Super-Rich’ With Clinton at the Helm

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Aug 4, 2016 With "cash machine" Tim Kaine at her side, big money is pouring into the Clinton campaign after back-to-back fundraisers with the Hollywood elite and the fossil fuel industry. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Richest 62 People Are as Wealthy as Half the World’s Population

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jan 18, 2016 British charity Oxfam calls for a crackdown on tax havens after its report finds the world's wealthiest hiding $7.6 trillion from taxes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Trade Deals Boost the Top 1 Percent and Bust the Rest

Robert Reich / Truthdig Feb 17, 2015 I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Put a Name to the 80 People Who Own Half of the World’s Wealth

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jan 27, 2015 Some of the names on this list of the über rich will seem familiar while others may come as a surprise. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune Jan 26, 2015 Dig deeper

The Super Rich Own Half the World

Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands Jan 19, 2015 Dig deeper

The World’s 1 Percent Will Own More Than the Other 99 Percent Combined by 2016

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jan 19, 2015 Can we please stop calling it the "wealth gap"? The figures Oxfam recently reported on global inequality can only be described as a growing abyss between the world's über-rich and the rest of us. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why Martin Luther King Jr. Would Support Obama’s Tax on the Super-Rich

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jan 19, 2015 In one of his last speeches, at Grosse Point, MI, the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, laid out his next campaign, the one he died pursuing It was not about civil rights for minorities but economic rights for “the other America" In one of his last speeches, at Grosse Point, MI". Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )