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Mexico: 12 Zeros

Patricia Simoni - December 19, 2024. Published in La Croníca de Hoy

U.S. billionaires accumulated the biggest gains in 2024.

Canada: Biden Breaks Taboo on Taxing Wealthy, Showing Trudeau How To Do It

Rejeanne Lacroix - March 23, 2023. Published in Toronto Star

Denmark: Inclusive Capitalism: You May As Well Get Used to It

Robin Koerner - December 19, 2022. Published in Berlingske Tidende

How much money is enough for you?

South Korea: Are the Donations of the Rich Always Good?

Robin Koerner - August 24, 2021. Published in Hankook Ilbo

[Billionaires] are the face of inequality — and deservedly so, since they are the greatest beneficiaries of an unfair tax system.

Japan: Japanese Capitalism Can Teach US Lessons in Income Growth and Equality

Robin Koerner - November 19, 2020. Published in Japan Times

How did Japan successfully bring up the poor? Not by taxing the rich, but by the combination of positive demographic dynamics and re-enforcing policy measures.

Ireland: The Irish Times View on US Centi-Billionaires and Inequality: How Much Is Too Much?

Rejeanne Lacroix - August 12, 2020. Published in Irish Times

Canada: What Is the Problem to which Creating a Wealth Tax Is a Solution?

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 26, 2019. Published in National Post

Perhaps the argument is less that the rich are too rich than it is that the government is too poor.

Australia: Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire Socialist. Does It Matter?

Rejeanne Lacroix - April 17, 2019. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald

Canada: Boogieing to Beyoncé at a $100 Million Wedding, Hillary Plots Her Comeback

Rejeanne Lacroix - December 19, 2018. Published in National Post

It’s Quondam et Futurus Hillary. She will either stage — to cite the cliché of choice — the greatest comeback since Lazarus, or join history with the bombinating evangelist, three-time presidential hopeful and loser, William Jennings Bryan.

China: How Long Can the Fire of Populism Burn in the US?

Robin Koerner - October 8, 2018. Published in Huanqiu

[H]istory has proven time and again that populism is a two-edged sword, capable of both harming others and oneself.

Ireland: Incredible Irony To Hear Billionaire Donald Trump Complain about Inequality

Rejeanne Lacroix - January 26, 2017. Published in Irish Examiner

Australia: Trump’s Failure To Disclose on Tax Returns Trashes Transparency Principle

Rejeanne Lacroix - May 31, 2016. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald

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