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Centi-millionaires: the plague of big numbers – millions, billions, trillions.

April 13, 2025 theheist 0

The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 counted 607 billionaires in the US. By April 2024, this number had grown by 34 percent to 813.  In […]

Thoughts on ending billionaire wealth – “Every billionaire is a policy failure”

December 26, 2024 theheist 4

The tsunami of billionaires that has washed across the planet over the last decade or so is troubling in the extreme. Now, we have the […]

Wealth Concentration and the Environment – a new concern

October 28, 2024 theheist 0

Much is made here and elsewhere of the extreme concentration of wealth in the top 1% of the world’s population (63 million people) and perhaps […]

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