A Relentless Growth of Disparity in Wealth
How the Rich Stole Our Money – and Made Us Think They Were Doing Us a Favor 4 May 2014. David Atkins. Salon. You’ve doubtless seen the charts and figures showing the decline of the American middle...
View ArticleHow Corporations avoid being taxed
Switching Names to Save on Taxes April 3, 2014. Floyd Norris. New York Times Caterpillar avoided billions of dollars in United States income taxes by taking the name of the American parent off the...
View ArticleWall Street’s version of capitalism is a fraud wrapped inside a delusion
Demerit-Based Pay Feb 5, 2009. Eric J. Fry. Rude Awakening Russia, according to Winston Churchill, was a “riddle wrapped inside an enigma.” Wall Street’s version of capitalism, according to us, is a...
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8% of the global financial wealth of households is held in tax havens, 75% of which goes unrecorded Gabriel Zucman. July 6, 2013.
View ArticleThe 1% have always been with us – even hunter gatherers had inequality
Pringle, H. May 23, 2014. The ancient roots of the 1%. Science 344: 822-825. Don’t blame farming. Inequality got its start among resource-rich hunter-gatherers. In 79 C.E., the year Mount Vesuvius...
View ArticleThe rich may be sheltering as much as 14% of global wealth in tax havens
[ There’s no need to go to Panama to hide money as this article points out: Here Is Rothschild’s Primer How To Launder Money In U.S. Real Estate And Avoid “Blacklists” Alice Friedemann...
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Limits to Growth? 2016 United Nations report provides best evidence yet
This peer-reviewed United Nations report (excerpts below) ought to scare anyone who understands exponential growth. Here are a few examples to think about while reading the report: If 2 grams of gold...
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Book review of “White Trash. The 400-year untold history of class in America”
Preface. This book makes the case that the poor arrived 500 years ago when America was first settled, and most of them never rose to the middle or upper classes because “land was the principal source...
View ArticleKurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses”& wealth
Preface. This is a well-written book with original insights into the economic, cultural, and politics behind how we got to a right-wing wannabe fascist incredibly unfair distribution of wealth. But...
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How corporations used conservative religion to gain wealth & power & undo the...
Source: Republican Jesus Preface. This is a book review of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse (2016), followed by excerpts from the book. Much of...
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