Economy - Part 2

More Than Half of US’s 100 Richest People Dodge Estate Taxes Via Special Trusts
More Than Half of US’s 100 Richest People Dodge Estate Taxes Via Special Trusts
The estate tax can be easily avoided by exploiting a loophole unwittingly created by Congress three decades ago. ...[Read more]
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Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money?
Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money?
Wealth is socially created — redistribution just allows more people to enjoy the fruits of their labor. ...[Read more]
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Big Pharma Greed ‘Literally Killing Americans,’ Sanders Says Outside Drug Lobby HQ
Big Pharma Greed ‘Literally Killing Americans,’ Sanders Says Outside Drug Lobby HQ
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" ...[Read more]
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Biden Shouldn’t Reappoint Powell to Federal Reserve. He’s Too Soft on Wall Street.
Biden Shouldn’t Reappoint Powell to Federal Reserve. He’s Too Soft on Wall Street.
Under Trump, Jerome Powell supported rolling back several financial regulations put in place after the Great Recession. ...[Read more]
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The Elites Are About to Turn Money Into Surveillance
The Elites Are About to Turn Money Into Surveillance
The U.S Treasury now has all the power in the world to quash individual targets via financial cord-cutting, but it may go further than leveling obvious marks such as terrorists and dictators. As privacy bandits within the department have yet to accomplish ...[Read more]
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Up to Half of Pentagon Spending Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
Up to Half of Pentagon Spending Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers
Up to half of the estimated $14 trillion that the Pentagon has spent in the two decades since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan has gone to private military contractors, with corporate behemoths such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, and General Dynami ...[Read more]
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Wall Street Is Buying All the Houses
Wall Street Is Buying All the Houses
The same people who caused the 2008 financial crash are at it again. Wall Street is back in the housing market, and this time they’re competing with you for a house. No wonder we’re increasingly becoming a nation of renters, and even that’s becoming ...[Read more]
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Treasury Finds Wealthiest 1 Percent Dodge Over $160 Billion in Taxes Yearly
Treasury Finds Wealthiest 1 Percent Dodge Over $160 Billion in Taxes Yearly
The Treasury Department found taxes owed by the ultra rich equal all income taxes paid by the bottom 90 percent yearly. ...[Read more]
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UK workers on returning to the office: No point if I end up doing video calls
UK workers on returning to the office: No point if I end up doing video calls
Some welcome the routine, while others are concerned about how it will work without everyone in at the same time ...[Read more]
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35 Million Americans Are Losing Unemployment Income Today
35 Million Americans Are Losing Unemployment Income Today
Pandemic unemployment benefits expire today, leaving 10 percent of the US population with dramatically less household income. ...[Read more]
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Sri Lanka raids private warehouses after declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages
Sri Lanka raids private warehouses after declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages
Sri Lankan government raided private warehouses outside capital Colombo to seize thousands of tonnes of sugar last week. The raids came a day after the country declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages. ...[Read more]
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