A new analysis, “Taxing Extreme Wealth,” by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking rise in global wealth among the world’s richest people despite deepening inequality during the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis,...
These disclosures about the how the world’s wealthy and powerful hide their vast fortunes will hopefully turn up the heat on the politicians that maintain the wealth-hiding status quo. This week we are closely watching the disclosures emerge from the Pandora...
PCI Board Member Chuck Collins was quoted in an opinion piece by Katrina vanden Heuvel in The Washington Post. From the article: Such extreme inequality can be disastrous for societies. Chuck Collins, who leads research on inequality at the...
Over the last 16 months, since the formal beginning of the pandemic lockdown, the combined wealth of 713 U.S. billionaires has surged by $1.8 trillion, a gain of almost 60 percent. The total combined wealth of U.S. billionaires increased...
PCI board member Chuck Collins was interviewed by Luke Savage for Jacobin Magazine. Inequality expert Chuck Collins is a lead author of the new IPS study “Silver Spoon Oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality.” Collins spoke...
PCI board member Chuck Collins was interviewed by Scott Harris on the weekly radio newsmagazine, Between the Lines. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Chuck Collins, director of the program on Inequality and the Common Good at the...
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of a family office as they fly below the radar. I explore the role of family offices in the larger “wealth defense industry” in my new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay...
PCI board member Chuck Collins and his recently released book The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions were discussed in the New York Post. From the article: “Over 35 percent of the 443 condominiums are owned...
The doorknobs were busted again. But this time Arianna Anderson’s son was trapped in the bathroom. Out of desperation, she called the fire department, which came and busted down the door, freeing her son. “Nine out of 10 times...
If you grew up agitated that “women earn 59 cents on the dollar,” for the same work as men, there’s a movie for you. At the beginning of the new film, Nomadland, one of the characters tells Fern, the...