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Many of the billionaires who claimed they were “sorry” they voted for Donald Trump in 2020, supported other Republican primary candidates this past year, and denounced Trump’s attempted insurrection are all being wooed back to the MAGA fold, according...
by Walter Einenkel
 133 comments
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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According to Business Insider, a record number of wealthy Americans are seeking ways to live overseas. Henley & Partners (a migration consultancy firm) states that alternative citizenship and residence rights are the "ultimate insurance policy" against...
by C0RI0LANUS
158 comments
on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 07:13 AM PDT
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Using its Libertarian bona fides to cover for the billionaire benefactors that bought the current, Federalist Society stamped court, through the helping hands of retiring ranking leader of the Senate GOP, Mitch McConnell, and his naked abuse of the...
by citixen
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 10:54 AM PST
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As a Wealth Advisor, I hear a lot of excuses for people not to invest. And when it’s political season (especially in a Presidential cycle), the reasons people use to justify their behavior is heightened due to emotional reasons, not necessarily logic...
by BayAreaKen
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 07:32 AM PST
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Imagine you have tomorrow off. And the next day. And the next 30 years. It sounds pretty awesome. But maybe sitting around all day, binge-watching HGTV and picking nacho-cheese Dorito crumbs out of your chest hair doesn’t thrill you as much as it...
by daylin
58 comments
on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 07:56 AM PST
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The New York stadium under construction was estimated to cost 1.4 billion. Of the cost for the stadium, public funds would be contributed amounting to $850 million. The Bills owner would contribute ...
by nailkeg
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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The unusual brief filed by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith with the SCOTUS today, to dispense with the Appellate circuit and, for the purpose of a well-informed public, asking it to decide expeditiously whether TFG’s legal defense has merit enough to...
by citixen
195 comments
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 08:34 PM PST
with 392 Recommends
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According to last April's Forbes Magazine there are 2640 billionaires in the world. There are an additional 128,000 people who control $50Million or more. These 130,000 (.016% of population) account for more than 50% of all the wealth and income in the...
by 40ford
59 comments
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 08:34 AM PST
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In recent decades, a growing similarity has developed between the Chinese and U.S. economic systems. Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s talk of “socialism,” the rapidly-expanding Chinese economy has become increasingly capitalist, with the private...
by Lawrence S Wittner
6 comments
on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 12:51 PM PST
with 15 Recommends
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With the Republican-forced government shutdown approaching on Saturday, at midnight, Republican Rep. Brandon Williamson of New York was interviewed on C-SPAN. Williamson is a former Wall Street banker and tech entrepreneur who eked out a victory in...
by Walter Einenkel
144 comments
on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 12:14 PM PDT
with 313 Recommends
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Without resorting to extreme measures, is there any act you could commit today that would have much effect outside the small world of people you know? Probably not. Yet, almost every day after they have breakfast Elon Musk and George Soros routinely...
by uncledonald
6 comments
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 08:36 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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China advances strongly in local human development as well as in global economic power and influence China is now leading the world in improving the health, education, income and living conditions of its 1.4 billion citizens. That’s according to the Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which gives 191...
by Alan Austin
17 comments
on Tue Jun 06, 2023 at 05:24 AM PDT
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You need to read this NYT article on generational wealth transfer “If you look at how did the 1% got this wealth? …they got wealth in the old fashioned way: taking it from the public domain. Privatisation. You have the largest transfer of wealth from...
by annieli
8 comments
on Mon May 15, 2023 at 02:34 PM PDT
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Trump continuing to insist on his Victimhood will hit the electorate, by 2024, as an assault on the Rule-of-Law. Celebrity that TFG says he is, the American public has demonstrated that it can turn on it's celebrities when it comes to jury trials, as...
by citixen
23 comments
on Thu May 11, 2023 at 03:09 PM PDT
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I call BS on the FED fighting inflation via interest rate inflation on those hurt most by inflation. There are many causes for the recent global inflation we have been facing. None of which are affordable interest rates for those who NEED to borrow to get by or get into or stay in the middle class. About half the cause is simple greed and price...
by Idontknowwhy
27 comments
on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 05:27 PM PDT
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Just now ran into this story on the FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) website by Steve Rendall. We already know that wealthy corporations and people have outsize influence in Washington. But this article really highlights it, and shows how...
by boblite
7 comments
on Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 07:11 AM PST
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I haven’t been poor, or even lived paycheck-to-paycheck, for a long time. Even the hardest days of struggle that I’ve faced as an adult don’t hold a candle to the nearly constant trials of my childhood—hunger that went far beyond anything a sandwich...
by Jessica Sutherland
467 comments
on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 10:25 AM PST
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“Oh, no! The sky is falling because our national debt is rising!” Smell familiar? Well, it would if hypocrisy gave off a rank odor. I know it sounds familiar, because it’s the same claptrap we hear from Republicans whenever there’s a Democrat in the...
by Ian Reifowitz
142 comments
on Tue Jan 31, 2023 at 01:46 PM PST
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One of the wonderful things about Daily Kos is the community of people who have met, become friends, and shared their lives, joys, trials and tribulations here. On Aug 3, 2006, Robert “Bobby” ...
by Black Kos
193 comments
on Tue Jan 17, 2023 at 02:00 PM PST
with 97 Recommends
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Advocates debate the best way to scale and implement reparations to recognize centuries of slavery, segregation, and redlining that continue to impact Black Americans today.
by Frances Nguyen
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by Prism Guest Writer
42 comments
on Fri Jan 06, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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