“A wealth tax of 2% on the world’s millionaires, 3% on those with wealth above $50 million and 5% on the worlds billionaires would raise $2.52 trillion dollars annually. This […]
Corporation profits earn a record $2.5 trillion — in one quarter...
How did wealth inequality fare in 2021? U.S. corporate after-tax profits hit a record high of $2.5 trillion in the third quarter of 2021, further enriching wealthy executives and shareholders […]
Dolan: Build Back Better plan is a “foot in the door”
“A foot in the door” — that’s how Karen Dolan, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, calls the Biden “Build Back Better Bill” making its way through Congress. Though […]
CBO opens the door to cut $1T from the defense budget
Earlier this month the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutting funding […]
The Pandora Papers exposes tax havens in the U. S.
The latest release of the “Pandora Papers” is the culmination of review of 600 members of the “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists” of documents released from fourteen international wealth management […]
Digging into the Pandora Papers
What are the Pandora Papers, why do they matter, and what do they reveal? For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur digs into this explosive investigation of nearly 12 million […]
