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Jeff Bezos watched his Blue Origin rocket explode into a mushroom cloud at Kennedy Space Center — while commenters noted the $100M could have funded a newsroom he gutted.
Articles and videos on billionaires, extreme wealth, and inequality — curated from across the web.
Gary Stevenson interviews Gabriel Zucman — the economist whose wealth tax proposals have already passed France's lower chamber. A practical roadmap for taxing the super rich.
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Reich dismantles the idea that billionaires earned their fortunes through individual genius alone — and explains the role of public investment, market power, and luck.
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A clear breakdown of the "buy, borrow, die" strategy that lets billionaires accumulate massive wealth while paying effective tax rates lower than their employees.
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The most-watched video on wealth inequality — visualizes how dramatically skewed U.S. wealth distribution is versus what people perceive or consider ideal.
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A clear breakdown of the GENIUS Act and what it actually means — including who benefits, who wrote it, and how it relates to the Trump family's own crypto ventures.
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A look at the security spending, private islands, and political hedging that suggest some billionaires know exactly how precarious their position is.
Watch on YouTube ↗Jeff Bezos watched his Blue Origin rocket explode into a mushroom cloud at Kennedy Space Center — while commenters noted the $100M could have funded a newsroom he gutted.
North American conservatives framed Trump's Beijing visit as "deal-making diplomacy" while attacking Canada's Carney for the same thing — a case study in how money and power shape political narratives.
A detailed legal comparison between World Liberty Financial and the crypto fraud cases that sent other founders to prison — the conduct matches, the last name is the only difference.
Consumer sentiment is cratering while the stock market hits record highs — a single graphic illustrates the K-shaped economy where the wealthy recover and everyone else doesn't.
Nearly 3 million US apartments are now owned by private equity firms — with Blackstone alone raising rents over 30% in acquired buildings while millions of Americans struggle to afford rent.
US employers spend over $1.5 billion a year on "union avoidance" consultants and law firms — a revealing look at the lengths corporations go to suppress worker organizing.
How AI is being used to entrench billionaire power — and what genuine resistance looks like in an era when the tools of distraction have never been more powerful.
A viral Reddit thread breaking down Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's compensation package — the numbers make the abstract concrete in a way that's hard to look away from.
A widely-shared Reddit thread connecting the dots between private equity buyouts, corporate landlords, and the broader billionaire project to eliminate the middle class as a property-owning class.