Gary Stevenson’s Wealth Tax Documentary Universally Trashed, Even by the Left

YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: ‘If we don’t tax wealth we’ll return to the feudal age’

Gary Stevenson's new Channel 4 show, How To Get Filthy Rich, is a provocative take on wealth, inequality and who the economy actually works for The post YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: ‘If we don’t tax wealth we’ll return to the feudal age’ appeared first on Big Issue.

Wealth Tax Campaigner Gary Stevenson: I’m Quitting

Gary Stevenson has only been doing this for five years. A surprising way to go for someone who declared just last week that he was “one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world.” Unless of course this is another grift for Gary’s Egonomics

Gary Stevenson gets his arse handed to him

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‘HMOs are a state-financed cash machine for investors’

Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City tells the story of The post ‘HMOs are a state-financed cash machine for investors’ appeared first on LabourList.

The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich

The idea of a wealth tax has never been more popular in Britain, and while many have campaigned for it, none have done more to boost the demand than one man: Gary Stevenson. The former city trader first joined us on Downstream four years ago. A lot has changed since then. This week, after []

Q&A: Peter Asher has heard it all

LOS ANGELES — When David Jacks published a biography of Peter Asher in 2022, the veteran record producer and manager expressed surprise that anyone would have deemed his life worthy of the treatment. Four years later, he's no less baffled to ...

Following the money: A new history of capitalism analyzes the destructive economic system

Trevor Jackson explores history and economics in his latest book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World' The post Following the money: A new history of capitalism analyzes the destructive economic system appeared first on rabble.ca.

Have Your SNAP Benefits Ever Been Stolen? Help ProPublica Investigate.

The post Have Your SNAP Benefits Ever Been Stolen? Help ProPublica Investigate. appeared first on ProPublica.

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty

Ryan McMaken reviews a new book on the political institutions of the Middle Ages, 'The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West.'

Gavin Newsom Just Took This Stupid Billionaire Tax Idea to a Whole New Level

Gavin Newsom Just Took This Stupid Billionaire Tax Idea to a Whole New Level

Power-ranking Sam Neill’s best (and worst) films - Joanna Wane

Power-ranking Sam Neill’s best (and worst) films - Joanna Wane

The “Shakedown Artist” Behind CA’s Billionaire Tax

How a one-time 5 percent billionaire tax is shaking up 2028.

Raging Stupidity: Social Media Edition

I normally don’t spend much time on Threads, but unfortunately over the past couple of days I’ve found myself wading through an endless morass of idiotic takes about the health and well being of Mitch McConnell. John Holder of Winthrop has an excellent antidote to this (screenshotting because we don’t seem to have Threads embed [] The post Raging Stupidity: Social Media Edition appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

People Noticed Something Strange With Jill Biden’s Book Debut

If only the memories of Joe Biden’s presidency could disappear this quickly. Former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir, “View from the East Wing,” has been mocked plenty since its June 2 release. But nothing captures the book’s collapse quite like this: After debuting at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, it []

Op-Ed: Scheme to Loot Energy Producers, Supercharge Affordability Crisis, Gets Hearing in N.J.

By Doug Kellogg Cross-Posted from ATR.org In the midst of an affordability crisis that has demanded the attention of politicians from the right and left, [...]

This F*cking Guy: John Roberts

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How Andrew became a party-loving ‘playboy’ as toxic Epstein friendship grew

Archived magazines provide a glimpse into the disgraced royal’s behaviour after his divorce

More Americans Are Getting Prenups, Even If They Aren't Rich

Bloomberg's Nikki Waller joins Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene on Bloomberg Money. Belle Burden’s blockbuster memoir, 'Strangers,' has riveted readers with the tale of her marriage’s sudden implosion and aftermath. They also discuss the rising popularity of prenups has been driven by changing financial dynamics of marriage. (Source: Bloomberg)

Don't Look Now BUT David Friedberg Just Ratioed TF Out of WEALTHY Ro Kohanna in Wealth Tax Back and Forth

Don't Look Now BUT David Friedberg Just Ratioed TF Out of WEALTHY Ro Kohanna in Wealth Tax Back and Forth

'Shame of the Nation'...

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His Wife Keeps Giving All Their Leftovers to Her Coworkers. The Growing Resentment is Splitting Their Household.

This dude is TOTALLY OVER his wife stealing all the leftovers. The post His Wife Keeps Giving All Their Leftovers to Her Coworkers. The Growing Resentment is Splitting Their Household. appeared first on TwistedSifter.

Peter Greene: The Fundamental Problem with School Choice

Peter Greene was a teacher for 39 years. Since he retired, he has become the most prolific blogger ever, ever, ever, patiently exposing how things work and why the current privatization movement can’t replace public schools. Privatization is promoted by the rich under the guise of helping the poor, but it always ends up benfitting []

California, here we go

James Freeman devotes his daily Best of the Web column to the proposition that “California leads the world in taxing the rick” (“Another socialist deception targets the Golden State’s economy”). In the column he takes up the “billionaire tax” that will appear on the ballot in November. We have covered the obvious problems that pervade the proposed law. Now that it has qualifed for the ballot, it is sure to

Gavin Newsom’s Healthcare Tax: Just the Latest Hit to CA Families

Gavin Newsom’s Healthcare Tax: Just the Latest Hit to CA Families

LARRY KUDLOW: It’s time to cut the capital gains tax

It will add growth to the GOP message ahead of the midterms

Watch Lewis Capaldi cover The Kooks ‘Naive’ with Luke Pritchard at BST Hyde Park 2026

Capaldi said the 2006 indie hit was one of the best songs ever written The post Watch Lewis Capaldi cover The Kooks ‘Naive’ with Luke Pritchard at BST Hyde Park 2026 appeared first on NME.

250 Years of Liberty! – Liberty Road: The Podcast

Freedom's light burning warm, or?

Requiem for America on the Fourth of July

Chris Hedges ScheerPost Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, hollow out democratic institutions, buy off our two ruling political parties and deform our courts into appendages of []

Derek C. Blasberg’s Starry Pre-Social-Media Archive

In his new book, Fast + Louche, the New York Times best-selling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent turns his former Interview magazine column into a gritty yet glamorous glimpse into a bygone era of celebrity.

Millions of People Are Aging Alone Now: What It Means for Retirement Taxes

Millions of People Are Aging Alone Now: What It Means for Retirement Taxes

Sam Neill’s Career in Photos: ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Piano,’ ‘Peaky Blinders’ and More

In his more than 50 years on screen, Sam Neill — who died on Monday at the age of 78 — was a leading man of both blockbusters and independent films, had memorable turns in several prestige TV series and excelled at playing heroes and villains alike. Though the New Zealand actor is best known []

Who wants to tax a billionaire?

A gentle guide to a harsh debate

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS review: Filthy rich? If this millionaire chancer gets his way, we'll all be dirt poor...

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS review: Filthy rich? If this millionaire chancer gets his way, we'll all be dirt poor...

DJ Fat Tony: ‘I’m hungry to embrace happiness. It took a long time to get it’

Having overcome sex, drug and alcohol addiction, DJ Fat Tony talks about his new book, married life, and DJing Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding.

¿De quién es la inteligencia artificial?

Mi columna de esta semana en Invertia se titula «La gran privatización de lo común» (pdf), y trata sobre una cuestión que creo que va a estar cada vez más en el centro de la discusión económica y política sobre la inteligencia artificial: qué parte de lo que hoy llamamos propiedad privada fue, en realidad,

Prince of Persia creator returns with perfect America 250 gift for July 4

Liberty is a new graphic novel from Jordan Mechner that might be a history buff dad's American Revolution dream gift.

Watch: 'Young Washington' sequel '1776' now in the works

Watch: 'Young Washington' sequel '1776' now in the works

Korn Ferry Q4 FY’26 slides: revenue beats estimates, RPO surges

Korn Ferry Q4 FY’26 slides: revenue beats estimates, RPO surges