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Ten Things You Can Do Now to Curb Wall Street’s Wealth Transfer System…

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The late 1920s and the early 2000s had two things in common. There was an unprecedented level of wealth and income inequality in the United States and there was no federal legislation to prevent giant Wall Street trading houses from owning deposit-taking banks filled with the savings of moms and pops across America. In both […]

‘A Government of the Millionaires, by the Millionaires, for the Millionaires…

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Way back in 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave his famed ‘Gettysburg Address’. In it he described ‘a government of the people, by the people, for the people’. Great words. But words are all they were. Fast forward 250 years or so and those famous words have now mutated into ‘government of the millionaires, by the millionaires, […]

Here Come The Calls for a Global Wealth Tax…

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A new report strategically timed for release with the start of the World Economic Forum boondoggle at Davos, shows that the world’s 26 richest billionaires now own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world’s population. The report titled “Public Good or Private Wealth,” found that top […]

Richest One Percent Made 82% of Wealth Created Last Year…

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The world’s richest one percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year while the poorest half of the population received none, Oxfam said Monday, as the world’s elite prepared to mingle at the World Economic Forum in Davos. A new report from the charity also found that the wealth of billionaires has […]

Top 0.7 Percent of World’s Population Controls $116.6 Trillion of Wealth…

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The most recent review shows that nearly half the world’s wealth — or about $255 trillion, which makes up 45.6 percent of the world’s wealth — is owned by a mere 0.7 percent of the world’s population. Meanwhile, 73.2 percent of the world only holds about $6 trillion of the world’s wealth…

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