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Beyond Panama: Unlocking the world's secrecy jurisdictions
Article
2016
International consortium of Investigative Journalists
The 21 jurisdictions covered by the Panama Papers data vary from the rolling hills of Wyoming to tropical getaways like the British Virgin Islands. But all have at least one thing in common - secrecy ...
Billionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
Greenwald, Glenn
Article
2016
The Intercept
Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertain...
Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Website
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
Cobb, Kurt
Article
2018
Climate & Capitalism
The wealthier they are, the more they fear that others will try to take their wealth. No wonder the super-rich are building bunkers to escape the apocalypse.
Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens
Buchheit, Paul
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
Forbes 400 list of world's richest people highlights growth of social inequality
Hightower, Ed
Article
2014
World Socialist Web Site
Forbes magazine published its 28th annual list of the world's wealthiest individuals and families on Monday. In all, the research team behind the Forbes Billionaires list found a total of 1,645 billio...
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Article
2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
Global inequality, illustrated, described, explained
Angus, Ian
Article
2014
Climate & Capitalism
Global inequality depitcted through images and quotes.
How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Wittner, Lawrence
Article
2014
CounterPunch
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 b...
How the One Percenters Divorce: Offshore Intrigue Plays Hide and Seek with Millions
Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split
Fitzgibbon, Will
Article
2016
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Offshore companies used 'in a game of hide and concealment' after marriages break down Documents list luxury cars and yachts, lavish homes, and art collections. Spouses face a costly battle to prove ...
Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich
Parenti, Michael
Article
1998
Against the Current
Of late much media attention has been given to the CEOs who rake in tens of millions of dollars annually in salaries and perks. But little is said about the tens of billions that these same corporatio...
Millions in poverty get less coverage than 482 billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news' lack of interest in poor
Article
2014
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
FAIR uses data from CBS, ABC, and NBC to conduct a study on how much the media reports on poverty, concluding that there is not very much coverage of people in poverty.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation the...
The Paranoia of The Superrich And Superpowerful
Chomsky, Noam
Article
2013
The United States is in favor of stability. But you have to remember what stability means. Stability means conformity to U.S. orders. We “stabilize” countries when we invade them and destroy them.
Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation
Brenner, Michael
Article
2013
Counterpunch
Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Pilkington, Ed
Article
2011
The Guardian
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnai...
Quotes about Wealth and the Rich
Unclassified
Connexions
State of Power 2014
Article
2014
Transnational Institute
A report with iinfographics and essays that expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Connexions
The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whos...
Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person
Bucheit, Paul
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Martin, Patrick
Article
2015
World Socialist Web Site
A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets th...
TPP a Gift to Plutocrats? Canada's Trade Minister Wrote the Book on Them
Nuttall, Jeremy J.
Article
2015
The Tyee
Canada's new trade minister has sitting on her desk the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal some say will accelerate the gap between rich and poor by protecting corporations' interests over tho...
Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More
Article
2015
Oxfam
Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in a f...
When Plutocrats Blame the Poor
Hard Times Redux
Richardson, Joseph
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The image of the self-made man has always been a fiction concocted for the edification of the poor, not a concrete policy prescription, as should be clear by now from the behavior of our very own ‘sel...
Why China's super-rich are now eager to invest in philanthropy
Graham-Harrison, Emma
Article
2015
The Guardian
The country's wealthy elite chase recognition and status by splashing cash on museums and schools, but there may also be a less idealistic motive behind their largesse.

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Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Hudson, Michael
Book
2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and go...


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