Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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GREEN NEW DEAL XVI: Undoing Neoliberalism's Spell and Reclaiming Common Sense
This is the sixteenth installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises.
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‘We Are Part of the Problem’: Billionaires and Heirs Demand Wealth Tax
“We are writing to call on all candidates for President to support a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1% of Americans — on us,” said the letter signed by 19 billionaires.
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Lessons Wealthy Britain Could Learn from Preston’s Worker-Centric Growth
A new economic model is afoot in the Lancashire city where government pumped funds into Preston-based businesses and encouraged the creation of cooperations owned and operated by workers.
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Why the 'One Percent' In the U.S. Is Worried
The wealthy elite increasingly recognizes that the socioeconomic status quo in the U.S. is unsustainable.
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We Are (Still) the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.
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The Kings of Capitalism are Finally Worried About the Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
Now that the political debate has shifted, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is the latest in a bank of billionaires to talk about the gap between rich and poor
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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
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Putting Billionaires In Their Place
America’s billionaires have suddenly realized they just may be facing an existential crisis: A good chunk of the American people, they now understand, would rather billionaires not exist.
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Revealed: populist leaders linked to reduced inequality
Populists both the left and right have closed the gap between rich and poor – but also eroded freedoms.
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Richest 0.00025% Owns More Wealth Than Bottom 150 Million Americans
"U.S. wealth concentration seems to have returned to levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties."