Democrats to the Working Class: Good Riddance!
Startling Advice from Fareed Zakaria
Only Billionaires Get the Benefit of the Doubt
By Talia Mullin / Original to ScheerPost Billionaires including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pinchai, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk were seated in front…
World’s Richest Billionaires at Center of Trump’s Inauguration: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg
US President Donald Trump invited Big Tech billionaire oligarchs to be at the center of his inauguration. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg symbolically sat with his cabinet picks.…
Breaking All Records, Trumps Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M From Billionaires & Corporations
On Monday, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos will attend Trump’s inauguration with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and a slew of other wealthy individuals tapped to join…
From Wall Street to Big Pharma: The Corporate Giants Bankrolling Trump’s Inauguration
The pharmaceutical industry's top U.S. lobbying group and Goldman Sachs are among the corporate donors to the president-elect's inaugural committee.
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Most working Americans have to pay Medicare taxes, but some of the richest figures on Wall Street have found a way to opt out, a ProPublica investigation found.
The First Seven Billionaires Trump Has Tapped for Top White House Jobs
Out of America's 800 billionaires, president-elect Trump has so far plucked seven for top spots in his administration.
CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24%
"Exorbitant CEO pay has contributed to rising inequality in recent decades—concentrating earnings at the top and leaving fewer gains for ordinary workers," said one expert at the Economic Policy Institute.
More for Them, Less for Us
Tesla, Ford, Netflix, and T-Mobile are among scores of profitable U.S. firms that pay their top executives more than they pay in federal taxes.
Global 1% Own 43% of Financial Assets
The world’s richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity got poorer, according to…
World’s First Trillionaire Just 10 Years Away as Richest Men Double Their Wealth
"This inequality is no accident; the billionaire class is ensuring corporations deliver more wealth to them at the expense of everyone else," said Oxfam's interim executive director.
How Harlan Crow Slashed His Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises
In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts.
Bill Gates Sees ‘China’s rise’ as ‘Huge Win For the World’
At a forum in Australia on Monday the 23rd, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described China’s rise to a leading global economy as a “huge win for the world.” According to…
The NFL: America’s Billion Dollar Blood Sport
By Harvey Wasserman / CounterPunch American football has always been a blood sport. It needs to change or die. Tackle must end. Flags must come. And they will. Why? Because…
Tax the Rich? We Did That Once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.