(2021-09-14). The History of Wealth Extraction in the US: a New Online Educational Tool. counterpunch.org At Take on Wall Street, we believe that you can't address the wealth gap, wage disparities, or a range of other economic threats without first understanding their source in our nation's origins. The mechanisms that drive inequality are often needlessly mystifying or hidden from sight. According to polling, most people in the United States believe
(2021-09-14). Chile, September 11, 1973: The Inauguration of Neoliberalism,"Shock Treatment" and the Instruments of Economic Repression: The Junta's Deadly "Economic Medicine" globalresearch.ca The Junta ordered a hike in the price of bread from 11 to 40 escudos. While food prices had skyrocketed, wages had been frozen. From one day to the next, an entire country had been precipitated into abysmal poverty; in less than a year the price of bread in Chile increased thirty-six fold.
(2021-09-14). How One Little-Known Loophole Fuels Toxic Dynastic Wealth. counterpunch.org On the surface, Americans appear to disagree about federal estate and gift taxes. Dig deeper, though, and you find that the crux of the disagreement is not whether to tax the intergenerational transmission of wealth, but when. We may disagree whether a small business owner and her husband who lived frugally and accumulated a five-million-dollar
(2021-09-13). Covid-19 is endemic, it is here to stay. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode of Covid-19 Watch, Prof. Satyajit Rath talks about a randomized trial by researchers in Bangladesh on the effectiveness of masks and mask-usage disparity within the country. Prof. Rath also talks about vaccine inequality, and how Palestine and the African Continent are lagging behind, and implausible prospects of complete eradication of Covid-19.
(2021-09-13). Close Down the Estate Tax Manipulations That Benefit Billionaires. inequality.org
(2021-09-13). House Tax Proposal Falls Short of Making Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share. inequality.org
(2021-09-13). Vaccines for all, not just rich countries. greenleft.org.au The profits from the production and sale of COVID-19 vaccines has created nine new billionaires with a combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world's poorest countries, report Stephen Coates and Rachel Evans.