World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/22-5

How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-1

The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/02-4

Retirement Theft in Four Despicable Steps
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/06-0

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Global wealth inequality: top 1% own 41%; top 10% own 86%; bottom half own just 1%

Just 8.4% of all the 5bn adults in the world own 83.4% of all household wealth (that's property and financial assets, like stocks, shares and cash in the bank).

http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/global-wealth-inequality-10-own-86-1-own-41-half-own-just-1/



World s richest get even richer

The worlds top 100 richest people have added a collective US$200 billion to their net wealth over the past year, bringing their collective total to US$2.1 trillion.

http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/48933/worlds-richest-get-even-richer/



Wealth of world s billionaires doubles since 2009

Even as workers in the US and other countries have seen their incomes plummet, the combined net worth of the world s billionaires has doubled since 2009, according to a report published Tuesday by UBS and Wealth-X, a consultancy that tracks super-rich individuals.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/11/pers-n11.html


From Information Clearing House

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The Superrich Don't Need Our Middle Class Infrastructure

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The superrich in this country are bleeding working-class Americans dry, while destroying the infrastructure of the nation that has done so much for their success. Without a strong economy and infrastructure, America s millionaires and billionaires would not be where they are today.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19814-the-super-rich-dont-need-our-middle-class-infrastructure



CEOs Against Grandmas

Sarah Anderson, OtherWords: The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20150-ceos-against-grandmas



The Retirement Deficit

Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords: The big push for cutting Social Security is coming from America s "corporate statesmen." Many of America s CEOs don t think we are "entitled" to a secure retirement.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20351-the-retirement-deficit



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