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On AlterNet: billionaires

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "billionaires"

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

Mark Ames, eXiled Online. October 8, 2009.
American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.

Sad News: America's Billionaires Facing Tough Times

Sad News: America's Billionaires Facing Tough Times

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 20, 2009.
Have billionaires, as some observers claim, now 'suffered' their way back to the rest of us? Nope.

The World's Billionaires: A New Count, a New Record

The World's Billionaires: A New Count, a New Record

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 18, 2008.
Forbes' latest list of billionaires reveals a global concentration of wealth that has reached truly staggering proportions.

Billionaire women signal end of inequality!

Billionaire women signal end of inequality!

Ann Friedman, AlterNet: PEEK. March 15, 2007.
Ann Friedman: Do heiresses prove there's no glass ceiling?

The Richest Year in History

The Richest Year in History

Tula Connell, TomPaine.com. March 15, 2007.
According to Forbes, this is the richest year in human history ... for those people who are already mind-bogglingly rich. But what about the rest of us?