The world's richest 1% own 43% of global financial assets, and the wealth of the top five billionaires has doubled since 2020, while 60% of humanity got poorer, according to a report by Oxfam, published to coincide with the World Economic Forum meeting of capitalist oligarchs and Western government officials in Davos, Switzerland. Ben Norton analyzes the fin ... Show More
May 27
To fight China, USA literally plans to colonize its ally
The US government is desperate to create a new supply chain that cuts out China, through its Pax Silica initiative. To do so, the Trump administration plans to colonize the territory of the Philippines, a supposed "ally" run by corrupt leader Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, with a 9 ... Show More
28m 41s
Apr 2022
The Sunday Read: ‘How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway?’
<p>America is home to 735 billionaires with a collective worth greater than $4.7 trillion, according to Forbes. There were just 424 billionaires in 2012, Forbes found, and only 243 a decade before that. The billionaires keep multiplying.</p><p>In this article, Willy Staley uses i ... Show More
35m 14s
Mar 2024
The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump
<p>Over the past few years, Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, has been dismissed as a money-losing boondoggle.</p><p>This week, that all changed. Matthew Goldstein, a New York Times business reporter, explains how its parent venture, Truth Media, became a public ... Show More
30m 12s
Aug 2023
Introducing... Good Bad Billionaire
<p>Coming Tuesday 29th August...</p><p>The podcast that finds out how the richest people on the planet made their billions, and then judges them for it. Are they good, bad, or just another billionaire?
Each episode BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist and podcaster Zin ... Show More
2m 4s