You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: The Worst Is Yet to Come

January 6, 2021

“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.” Stefan Zweig Over tim…

The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing to Do with Trump

January 2, 2021

Opinion

Asserting that Donald Trump is a fascist-like dictator threatening the previously sturdy foundations of U.S. democracy has been a virtual requirement over the last four years to obtain entrance to cab…

Why They’re Denying You Healthcare and Financial Support During a Pandemic

December 23, 2020

Opinion

An old adage known as Betteridge’s law of headlines asserts that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” There’s a Bloomberg story trending on Twitter right no…

Health and Wealth in India – Farmers’ Lives Matter

December 22, 2020

Opinion

The deregulation of international capital flows has turned the planet into a free-for-all bonanza for the world’s richest capitalists. Under the post-World-War Two Bretton Woods monetary regime, gover…

The Pandemic Dirty Dozen

December 14, 2020

Opinion

These 12 people get rich while doing the most harm. It’s tough to even explain to people how much the wealth of the richest Americans has increased while everyone else has suffered during this pandemi…

The Earth’s Population is Shrinking – the Only Thing Increasing Is the Number of Billionaires

November 17, 2020

Opinion

Just recently, it was possible to see a substantial number of reports in various media outlets predicting the growth of the birth rate throughout the world. These projections for many countries were e…

The Corporate Dictatorship of the Very Rich

November 10, 2020

Opinion

I heard friends praising Bill Gates philanthropy a while ago; it still surprises me how people respond to billionaires. The wealthy improve their image financing self-serving projects they present as …

Five World’s Wealthiest Families Control a Fortune of over $620 Billion

October 30, 2020

Opinion

Spread across different economic sectors, some of the global most affluent families continue to amass more wealth. Despite the recent economic uncertainty, the wealthiest families in the world appear …