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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Film adaptation of economist Thomas Piketty's best-selling book. An eye-opening journey following wealth and power across time.

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Cost $17.74. Price to you $712 -- for a Covid drug that taxpayers helped develop. American's are being fleeced by their healthcare. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Millions are at risk of starving to death — and just .36% of the world's top billionaires' net worth could help fix it, U.N. official says cbsn.ws/3vRMS4L

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PRESS RELEASE: 10 richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall. New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of 1 person every 4 seconds. oxf.am/32RQSIf #Inequality #DavosAgenda World Economic Forum

PRESS RELEASE: 10 richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall.

New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of 1 person every 4 seconds.

oxf.am/32RQSIf 

#Inequality #DavosAgenda <a href="/wef/">World Economic Forum</a>
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Banking secrecy is an issue of global public interest that facilitates corruption and has a profound impact on the world’s poorest. This #CreditSuisse leak exposes wealthy people involved in torture, trafficking, money laundering, and more. theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/…

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Something for the morbidly wealthy. America's most expensive house is on the market for $295,000,000. architecturaldigest.com/story/the-one-…

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Confronting war, rethinking sanctions Current sanctions only affect a few hundred people, with little control and multiple loopholes, whereas tens of thousands of Russian fortunes invested in Western circuits should be systematically targeted lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

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Most people in the world now live under an autocratic regime - over the last 10 years this has risen from 49% to 70%. Democracy is good for your health. axios.com/democracy-auto…

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"If you look at opinion polls about a billionaire tax in the U.S. — among Democratic and also Republican voters — you have huge approval. So is the political system able to respond to this, or is it rigged?" nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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Do we need billionaires for innovation and growth? Thomas Piketty is really sharp in this interview nytimes.com/2022/06/07/pod… /1

Do we need billionaires for innovation and growth? Thomas Piketty is really sharp in this interview  nytimes.com/2022/06/07/pod… /1
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Redistributing wealth to save the planet Do the governments of rich countries know how to count, or are they putting the interests of a small class ahead of those of the planet and the population ? lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

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Runaway inequality is here... only a shock to the top can reverse it. Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth. $26tn of new wealth created since start of pandemic went to richest theguardian.com/inequality/202…

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Democracy vs oligarchy, the fight of the century Trump's return to the White House must not lead to despair: democratic forces remain strong in the US as well as in Europe, India or Brasil. They will prevail! lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…