- Lawsuit: Trump Tricked People into Investing in ‘Get-Rich-Quick Schemes’ When They Were Down and Out https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/lawsuit-trump-tricked-people-into-investing-in-get-rich-quick-schemes-when-they-were-down-and-out/ 7 comments politics
- Of Course Trump and His Adult Kids Hawked Get-Rich-Quick Schemes to Poor People https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-acn-lawsuit 4 comments politics
- “That’s Been the Story of Life”: Trump on Why Rich People Are Getting Tests First https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/thats-been-the-story-of-life-trump-on-why-rich-people-are-getting-tests-first/ 385 comments politics
- Rich People Are Getting Away With Not Paying Their Taxes - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/rich-people-are-getting-away-not-paying-their-taxes/577798/?fbclid=iwar0chdeefeo4abwvu6lkltkb19otofrb2lsrtbijonry9itdtkjohasyjxy 22 comments politics
- Rich people are hoarding cash, and wealth managers are getting frustrated | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/7ebfa850-bf2d-11e9-9381-78bab8a70848 83 comments economy
- Warren Buffett on why bubbles happen: People see neighbors 'dumber than they are' getting rich https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/warren-buffett-on-why-the-next-financial-crisis-is-unavoidable-greed.html 79 comments business
- Warren Buffett on why bubbles happen: People see neighbors 'dumber than they are' getting rich https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/warren-buffett-on-why-the-next-financial-crisis-is-unavoidable-greed.html 20 comments economy
- CNBC Analyst: Bain Capital ‘Fired A Lot Of People’ To Get ‘Prosperity For The Rich’ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/20/487367/cnbc-analyst-bain-capital-fired-a-lot-of-people-to-get-prosperity-for-the-rich/ 3 comments politics
- Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich: "Some of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich 11 comments economy
- Trump tells Senate Dems that 'rich people get hurt' in GOP tax plan http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/359225-trump-tells-senate-dems-that-rich-people-get-hurt-in-gop-tax-plan 21 comments politics
- This is why the filthy rich are getting richer and we the common people are getting screwed out of our next paycheck. http://blog.ideazz.in/2010/10/why-are-commodities-hitting-roof.html 20 comments business
- In a time when the rich are getting richer, and the middle class is dissolving, people are prepared to vote for the party who aims to extend trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy whilst blocking benefits for the unemployed. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cu7sz/its_amazing_that_nearly_80_years_after_the_great/c0vb9j9 4 comments politics
- How rich people get sentenced. Wealthy woman steals over $2 million worth of jewelry from Tiffany's and gets just a year in prison. http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/ex-tiffany-exec-sentenced-for-dollar2-million-jewelry-theft 1437 comments politics
- Can we afford the rich any more? : I haven’t yet seen people get all the right people in the room, close the damn door, put all the problems on the wall and come up with a solution.” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asvqupgw.ezy&refer=home 16 comments business
- Deficit hawks? $7Trillion more debt. Middle class with the promises? Super rich get the most benefit. Not a people's tax plan https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968 14 comments worldnews
- Side Effects Include Your doctor turning into a drug dealer, big corporations pumping pills down the throats of everyone in America including our children, companies getting rich while people die from taking unsafe pills that the FDA approved http://easygrowhouseplants.blogspot.com/2007/07/side-effects-include.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Honest Rich People Don’t Have Trouble Getting Loans. Trump Couldn’t Get One in 2016. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/02/02/honest-rich-people-dont-have-trouble-getting-loans-trump-couldnt-get-one-in-2016/ 147 comments politics
- 1) Rich people are happier than poor people; 2) Rich countries are happier than poor countries; 3) As countries get richer, they tend to get happier. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/the-economics-of-happiness-part-1-reassessing-the-easterlin-paradox/ 6 comments reddit.com
- Bush's "Magic" Economic Formula: The Rich get Richer; Regular People Lose Ground http://alternet.org/story/52955/ 29 comments reddit.com
- "You can't raise taxes on the rich. These people know how to get around taxes. Warren Buffett pays no taxes because all of his wealth is in unrealized capital gains. There's no tax on unrealized capital gains, so how do you get it? You have to tax poor people." http://www.thestreet.com/story/10448025/laffer-obama-picked-a-losing-team.html 47 comments politics
- GOP Prepares to Make Case That Poor People Must Sacrifice So Rich Can Get Tax Cuts http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/will-gop-sacrifice-safety-net-programs-on-altar-of-tax-cuts.html 2981 comments politics
- What's your favorite way to pay for tax breaks for the rich? Mine is make old people scared shitless of getting sick. http://www.facebook.com/lolgop/posts/191742574202356 3 comments politics
- Opinion | Mad about how little rich people pay in taxes? Here’s how to get them to pony up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/10/mad-about-how-little-rich-people-pay-taxes-heres-how-get-them-pony-up/ 17 comments economy
- Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South | “Medicines and vaccines are not a commodity. It’s not something to get rich with. It’s something to save people’s lives.” says the director of the Cuban Center for Neuroscience. https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/27/cuba_beat_covid_despite_us_embargo 5 comments worldnews
- Why the shit is "ordinary income", which people work their asses of for, taxed over twice as much as "capital gains", which is basically getting paid for being rich? Seems like it should be the converse... http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/capital-gains-vs-ordinary-income/ 4 comments politics
- Meet the Shameless Plutocrats Choking What's Left of Our Democracy. The race for the White House may cost more than two billion dollars. What’s getting trampled into dust are the voices of people who aren't rich. http://www.alternet.org/economy/154137/moyers%3A_meet_the_shameless_plutocrats_choking_what%27s_left_of_our_democracy/ 53 comments politics
- How to revive the American Dream "The rich get richer, while everyone else falls behind. The game is rigged, and the people who rigged it want it to stay that way. They claim that if we act to improve the economic well-being of hard-working Americans..we will threaten economic growth. They're wrong" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-revive-the-american-dream/2015/05/06/a583c94c-f323-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html?tid=rssfeed 272 comments politics
- Why Do the Rich Get to Go Through Airport Security Faster Than You? "Many airports offer express security lines for first- and business-class passengers. Why are the Feds letting rich people cut in line?" http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/147703 6 comments politics
- The people who ruined the internet | As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going https://www.theverge.com/features/23931789/seo-search-engine-optimization-experts-google-results 42 comments technology
- Under capitalism, housing provision is based on what will make developers, lenders, and landlords rich — not what average people need to survive. That’s why we’ll never get decent, affordable housing for everyone under the free market. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/capitalism-affordable-housing-rent-commodities-profit 27 comments politics
- rich people who inherit their billion's are generally idiots. when they take control of the politics of a nation they are still idiots. They don't suddenly go from being Paris Hilton in her 20's at a party to being a genius in their 40's when they paid off media to get them elected to office. http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/qkics/brazil_the_country_that_wised_up_and_literally/c3yctgt 16 comments economy
- The Angry Rich: "The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html 216 comments politics
- "We are talking about people who are already fantastically rich. And who, despite this, are absolutely hell-bent on getting richer, even if that means depriving hundreds of millions of people in the American middle class of their middle classness. Are they not essentially sociopathic?" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/05-0 1112 comments politics
- Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: “The president likes to divide people into groups. He’s too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other. We need to get along.” http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112364/fox-news-latino-roger-ailes-courts-hispanic-viewers 14 comments politics
- "Which smart people are we ignoring? They’re everywhere. Let’s start with the economists who warn that the U.S. economy is at the end of its rope, that the federal government can’t keep increasing the deficit, that underpaying workers as the rich gets richer is a recipe for collapse and revolution." http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2010/04/27/syndicated-column-coulda-shoulda-wouldntve 7 comments politics
- "Get ready for a world currency 2018" - It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/07/05/20170709_econ.jpg 8 comments btc
- Get Rich Slowly: People in their 30s haven’t really experienced a significant or long recession, they may not be able to respond quickly enough to mitigate the damage ahead http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/03/20/the-negative-saving-rate-and-the-age-of-easy-credit/ 8 comments business
- "Where are the Tea Partiers on this one? Apparently they have no problem with big government handing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to rich Wall Street bankers. They only get upset when they think that some of their money might be used to provide poor people with health care." http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/dean_baker_ec04d23b-022b-4aed-bca4-c7c9f3830736.html 6 comments politics
- When you poll people on same-sex marriage, equal pay for women, the minimum wage, paid sick leave for lower-income workers, and yes, higher taxes on the rich, the positions taken by Sanders almost always get majority and in some cases overwhelming public support. http://jaybookman.blog.ajc.com/2015/07/07/bernie-sanders-and-the-american-mainstream/ 10 comments politics
- Stagnating wages and worsening living standards of large segments of the U.S. working class were a necessary price for lifting hundreds of millions of people in the developing world out of poverty. Oh yeah, and also the richest one percent happened to get unbelievably rich in the process as well. http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/charles-lane-and-the-washington-post-are-very-generous-with-the-jobs-and-wages-of-ordinary-workers 7 comments politics