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Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit

It's been a rough few years for most people around the world—but not these folks.

18.03.2024 10

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

Love The Music, Taylor Swift, But Please Park that Private Jet – OpEd

I spent a decade, like many parents, chauffeuring pre-teen and teenage girls around to a Taylor Swift soundtrack. I learned every Swift song as it was...

20.02.2024 5

Eurasia Review

Chuck Collins

A Super Bowl Note to Taylor Swift: Love the Music, Park the Private Jet

Congrats, Taylor, for your talent and decades of consistently great songwriting. You deserve all the accolades and rewards. But I have one request...

09.02.2024 6

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

‘Baby Bonds’ Can Help Democratize the Stock Market, for Real

Innovative programs like these can help bust up the dangerous concentration of wealth at the top of our country’s economic ladder.

19.01.2024 3

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

The Rich Own Nearly All The Stocks: Here’s How We Level The Playing Field – OpEd

Nearly all stock market wealth in this country is now owned by the super rich. The wealthiest 10 percent hold about 93 percent of all household stock...

18.01.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Chuck Collins

As elites gather in Davos, they can’t ignore that most high-net worth individuals like me want to pay more tax

A full 75% support introducing a 2% wealth tax on billionaires.

17.01.2024 10

Fortune

Chuck Collins

New Englanders are fighting against new infrastructure for carbon-intensive billionaire travel. If they win, the significance could be global

The median wealth of a U.S. private jet owner is $190 million–and their emissions 10 to 20 times those of an average airplane passenger.

14.11.2023 3

Fortune

Chuck Collins

New England Climate Activists Press for No New Private Jet Infrastructure

There is a local battle over airport expansion with global implications on climate and inequality.

07.10.2023 4

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

It Isn't Nice, But Climate Activists Will Block the Doorways

"There are nicer ways to do it. But the nice ways always fail.”

15.09.2023 1

Common Dreams

Chuck Collins

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