Take a Guess at How Many People Collectively Are as Wealthy as Half the World. It’s Less Than That

Staff / Truthdig Jan 22, 2014 We've all heard that 1 percent of the global population owns 50 percent of the earth's wealth, and yet, now that the actual number of people has been calculated by the relief organization Oxfam, it's hard not to cringe at the fact. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Most Powerful Person in the World Is…

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Oct 31, 2013 Forbes has ranked a list of political, religious and business leaders in order of their, uh, power, and guess what? Barack Obama, commander in chief of the largest military force in the history of the world, is only in second place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Beware Capitalist Tools

Robert Reich / Truthdig May 28, 2013 Forbes magazine likes to call itself a “capitalist tool,” and routinely offers tool-like justifications for whatever it is that profit-seeking corporations want to do. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

It’s Just Business: How Corporate America Made Slaves of the Young

Christian Neumeister / Truthdig Aug 9, 2012 Companies across the nation are gleefully denying interns fair wages for their work, in flagrant violation of long-standing labor law, and have the nerve to tell the world they are doing these people a favor.A disturbing percentage of U.S. companies accepts as routine the illegal work of unpaid interns. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Batali vs. the Bankers

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2011 Mario Batali, feel the wrath of the 1 percenters. The ginger-haired and orange-shod celebrity chef and owner of fancy New York eateries Babbo and Del Posto caused an uproar among Wall Streeters when he talked about bankers, Hitler and Stalin in the same sentence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Queen Victoria’s Undies Sold at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Nov 2, 2011 These are strange times in British culture, what with all the Wills-and-Kate worship set against the backdrop of turmoil over austerity measures and a faltering economy, plus the recent news that the terms of Old Blighty's outworn monarchical system are being updated to pander slightly less blatantly to the old boy's club (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Five Women Who Matter Most

Helen Redmond / Truthdig Oct 5, 2011 The Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women is an obscenely wealthy international sisterhood of politicians, celebrities and billionaires This is an alternativeForbes' World’s 100 Most Powerful Women are an obscenely wealthy sisterhood of politicians, celebrities and billionaires. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

And the World’s Richest Person Is …

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2011 Well, it's not Bill Gates, but the Microsoft mastermind did come in second place in this year's countdown of Forbes' top 10 wealthiest people in the world. So who was No. 1? That would be Mexico's Carlos Slim, for the second year in a row. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

First Lady Lands on Top of Power List

Staff / Truthdig Oct 7, 2010 Michelle Obama put her own career on hold to help her husband become president, but it looks like the perks of being first lady extend beyond just having a kick-ass organic veggie patch at her disposal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Newt and the Closet Kenyan

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Sep 14, 2010 Is Newt Gingrich just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend? His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

China Has Second-Most Billionaires, Behind U.S.

Staff / Truthdig Mar 12, 2010 Well, that didn't take long China now has more billionaires (89 if you include Hong Kong) than any other country except for the US, which, to be fair, has been working overtime to transfer wealth upward Unlike the U, the Chinese government has promised to distribute its bounty to "make our society fairer and more harmonious". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Do the Billionaire Shuffle

Staff / Truthdig Mar 12, 2009 Bill Gates is once again the world's richest man, though he rules over a ravaged kingdom of billionaires. Forbes' annual list has shriveled by nearly a third and $2 trillion in net worth. Those poor billionaires. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )