Oxfam: 82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to Richest 1%

A new report by Oxfam says global economic inequality widened last year, with 82 percent of all wealth created going Continue reading →

If those in power can evade justice, there is no justice

“No one should be above the law and given that we are, in reality, not all equal before the law, Continue reading →

Midterms Prediction: Billionaires to Retain Control of Government (SATIRE)

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—With just one week to go until the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that billionaires are Continue reading →

NY Magazine reporter crashes a secret Wall Street society exposing America’s financial elite

What a wild story we have here in 1% Jokes and Plutocrats In Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed Continue reading →

Question: Did Wall Street deliberately crash the economy in 2008 to become America’s landlord?

A foreclosed house sign with sale pending. March 2011. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) Anyone who has ever struggled to get her Continue reading →

Economic Opportunity Is Lowest In the Republican Bible Belt, Major Study Finds

The website  Equality-Of-Opportunity.org was established this year by four leading economists from Harvard and Berkeley, and it now headlines their major Continue reading →

How billionaires shaft the rest of us by avoiding estate taxes

Sheldon Adelson makes no secret of his disdain for the estate tax. “How many times do you have to pay Continue reading →

Dollarocracy: “confidence in the media as a check on abuses of power is collapsing”

This article originally appeared in The Nation. “We’ve found through our experience that timid supplications for justice will not solve Continue reading →