- Bill Gates, the world's second-richest person behind Jeff Bezos, wants rich people to pay higher taxes: “We've updated our tax system before to keep up with changing times, and we need to do it again, starting with raising taxes on people like me." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bill-gates-calls-tax-hike-wealthy-new-years-eve-blog-2020-1-1028791394 8156 comments worldnews
- Bill Gates regains second-richest spot while Mukesh Ambani slips to 18th place in world rich list https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/industry/article/mukesh-ambani-bill-gates-regains-second-richest-spot-while-mukesh-ambani-slips-to-18th-place-in-world-rich-list/463646 19 comments india
- Oil-rich United Arab Emirates aims to be a sustainable energy pioneer. One of the world's richest oil-based economies is embracing sustainable technologies, and making a surprise bid to become a clean energy leader http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/uae-clean-energy-sustainable-technologies-masdar 101 comments worldnews
- Rich People In America Have Too Much Money, Says The World's Second-Richest Man, Warren Buffett http://www.newsweek.com/rich-people-america-buffett-629456 617 comments politics
- World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People on Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore | Critics have said LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and other super-rich have emitted hundreds of tons of CO2 through private air travel. https://gizmodo.com/bernard-arnault-private-jet-twitter-louis-vuitton-1849666300 68 comments environment
- Richest would benefit from Trump tax plans: A revenue loss this large can only be made up with spending cuts to defense, Social Security, Medicare, by ending mortgage deductions, and/or expanding the deficit. The mega-rich again reap the benefits http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/mailbag/richest-would-benefit-from-trump-tax-plans/article_4b0b9448-7180-5c99-8a00-a6f4743ab91c.html 87 comments politics
- France’s ‘super-rich’ take fortunes to Belgium: A fifth of France’s 100 richest people have moved a total of €17 billion to neighbouring Belgium in recent years, a report showed at the weekend, saying the exodus is largely due to French socialist President François Hollande’s tax policies. http://www.france24.com/en/20140914-france-super-rich-fortunes-belgium/ 92 comments europe
- Richest 1% of people produce emission’s equivalent to that of poorest 66% of people… It just ain’t fair… Obscene Inequalities Between Global Rich and Global Poor is Root-Cause of our Climate Mayhem https://youtu.be/rvqaG8-B5uE?si=BRGvjyv5NdcEfOPO 6 comments climate
- Elizabeth Warren: Our tax system has had one set of rules for the wealthy and another set of rules for everyone else. I’m done with that. Here’s one way to get the richest of the rich to pay what they owe: https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1638654304788652033 158 comments economy
- The richest 1 percent of Americans aren’t paying $163,000,000,000 they owe in taxes each year. The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1436386091997675525 226 comments economy
- Tax the rich: Will Biden make good on his campaign promise? The richest 1% in the US added over $4 trillion in wealth in 2020 as stocks hit record highs and property values grew. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/22/tax-the-rich-biden-determined-to-make-good-on-campaign-promise 13 comments politics
- Georgia Senator David Perdue Privately Pushed for a Tax Break for Rich Sports Team Owners: It’s unclear why Senator Perdue was interested in tax regulation that would impact only a tiny set of the richest Americans. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/georgia-senator-david-perdue-privately-pushed-for-a-tax-break-for-rich-sports-team-owners/ 109 comments politics
- Billionaire Novogratz : Rich People Around Me Are In Panick About Elizabeth Warren. "You aren't victims, you're the richest people in the world. How in God’s name do you feel like a victim?" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-30/obama-will-kill-stock-market-no-trump-will-no-warren-will 76 comments economy
- How Some of America's Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing |In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/connecticut-affordable-housing-zoning-westport/590155/ 36 comments economy
- The rich are outliving the poor in both Norway and USA. The differences in life expectancy between the one per cent richest and one per cent poorest in Norway were 14 years for men and 8 years for women. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/ifhm-tra051319.php 16 comments science
- Since the 1970s, income growth for the richest people and places has far outpaced the relatively modest increases seen elsewhere. In 1980, only about 12 percent of the population lived in places that were especially rich or especially poor. By 2013, it was over 30 percent. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/study-finds-gap-between-rich-and-poor-growing-regionally-too/ 43 comments science
- Poorest dying nearly ten years younger than the rich in “deeply worrying” trend - "Women life expectancy in most deprived communities in 2016 was 78.8 years, compared to 86.7 years in the most affluent group. For men, 74.0 years among the poorest, compared to 83.8 years among the richest." https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/189149/poorest-dying-nearly-years-younger-than/ 1395 comments science
- Hurun India Rich List 2017: Acharya Balkrishna is India's 8th richest; Mukesh Ambani's wealth grew 58% http://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/hurun-patanjali-acharya-balkrishna-india-richest-mukesh-ambani-wealth-net-worth/story/261001.html 12 comments india
- Midnight in the Garden of East Texas - Marjorie Nugent was the richest widow in an eccentric town full of rich widows. Bernie Tiede was an assistant funeral home director who became her companion. When she disappeared, nobody seemed alarmed. When he confessed to killing her, nobody seemed outraged. http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/midnight-in-the-garden-of-east-texas/ 3 comments indepthstories
- 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
- Bernie Sanders’s health-care plan is the biggest attack on the rich of this campaign "We now know it would. We also know that, by Sanders' accounting, the plan would actually put more money into the pockets of all but the very richest Americans." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/17/bernie-sanders-new-health-care-plan-is-his-biggest-attack-on-the-rich-so-far/ 3445 comments politics
- India’s richest have smaller carbon footprint than poorest from rich nations http://www.briefmedia.news/indias-richest-have-smaller-carbon-footprint-than-the-poorest-from-rich-nations/ 19 comments worldnews
- What Marco Rubio Offers the Super Rich that his GOP Rivals Won’t - "The freshman Florida senator who once called taxing property “immoral” now wants to completely eliminate taxes on capital gains and dividends—a mainstay for the richest of the rich." http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/85867/how-much-tax-unearned-income-rubio-plan-suggests-zero?mref=home 114 comments politics
- The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves: Top Tenth of 1 Percenters Reaps All the Riches http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-03/top-tenth-of-1-percenters-reaps-all-the-riches 4 comments economy
- Europe’s choice: Rich man, poor man "Years after the EU’s expansion, Europe seems to be united. But in reality, a social iron curtain is dividing the East from the West. Euronews visited the union’s richest and the poorest member countries to find out the reasons for economic differences" http://www.euronews.com/2014/05/06/europe-s-choice-rich-man-poor-man/ 28 comments europe
- How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong: Unveiling the real story behind the richest of the rich http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/how-you-i-and-everyone-got-the-top-1-percent-all-wrong/359862/ 9 comments politics
- America's Class System Across The Life Cycle. "Rich kids without college are 2.5x more likely to wind up in the richest fifth than poor kids with college." http://www.demos.org/blog/3/25/14/americas-class-system-across-life-cycle 795 comments politics
- "The self-proclaimed government in Kiev has appointed two of Ukraine’s richest men to govern large industrial regions in the defiant east. One of the reasons for the Maidan protest was the influence the rich have on politics in the country." http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=91912 19 comments worldnews
- François Hollande’s 75% tax rate on the rich struck down by French court: Hollande was described as an “amateur” and compared to the emperor with no clothes as members of his party began to turn on him after his flagship 75% tax rate for France’s richest was ruled unconstitutional. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/31/francois-hollandes-75-tax-rate-on-the-rich-struck-down-by-french-court/ 7 comments worldnews
- French newspaper to France's richest man: "Get lost, you rich bastard" http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/staggers/2012/09/french-newspaper-frances-richest-man-get-lost-you-rich-bastard 387 comments worldnews
- Gina Rinehart, World's Richest Woman: 'Spend Less Time Drinking And Smoking' And You'll Be Rich http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/gina-rinehart-drinking-smoking_n_1843371.html 10 comments politics
- China's Rich Lists Riddled With Communist Party Members - "over 90% of the 1,000 richest people tracked by the Hurun Report are either officials or members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" http://www.forbes.com/2011/09/14/china-rich-lists-opinions-contributors-john-lee.html 3 comments worldnews
- Why the Rich Love Unemployment. "Over the last two years, out-of-work Americans have played a critical role in helping the richest one percent recover trillions in financial wealth..." http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/mark-provost-why-the-rich-love-unemployment.html 109 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders: "The USA is the only nation in the industrialized world that doesn't guarantee health care. As the richest become richer and the poorest become poorer, the Republicans propose a trillion dollars to the very rich, and to cut all kinds of programs for the most vulnerable people" http://www.frequency.com/video/bernie-sanders-on-us-healthcare/6130257 173 comments politics
- The Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer. "The richest 1 percent of us earned 24 % of the nation's total income, the highest since 1928, just before the Great Depression. On the other hand, 14.3% were living in poverty in 2009, according to the U. S Census Bureau..." http://www.commondreams.org/print/62863 4 comments politics
- Warren Buffet 2nd Richest Man-Must Increase Taxes On Rich - Tax Cuts Do Not Trickle Down http://egbertowillies.com/2010/11/21/warren-buffet-2nd-richest-manmust-increase-taxes-on-rich--tax-cuts-do-not-trickle-down-p2-tcot-teaparty.aspx 200 comments politics
- The Rich Still Get Richer: The richest CEOs are making more money than ever, the recession and the rest of us be damned http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/11/15-1 3 comments politics
- John McCain hates veterans but loves rich friends. He voted against new GI bill, $19B for military health facilities, $2.8B to increase veterans' medical care, $1B trust fund to improved veterans health facilities and increasing medical services, all to save tax cuts for the richest 1% http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x383783 42 comments reddit.com
- The richest 400 Americans -- just 400 people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/print.php?id=237 157 comments politics
- If Inequality Continues to Grow at Current Rate, Richest Americans Will Own 100% of US Wealth in 33 Years: Analysis. "However you slice it, the rich have been getting richer. Lots richer." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/05/if-inequality-continues-grow-current-rate-richest-americans-will-own-100-us-wealth 64 comments politics