in this episode…you’ll hear from Chuck Collins, who is the great-grandson of the founder of Oscar Mayer meat processing brand, and who describes himself as someone born on third base. we discuss his book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books), which unmasks the industry of professional enablers that assist the ultra-wealthy to hide wealth and dodge taxes.
Chuck is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of over ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties.
He is a founding member of the Patriotic Millionaires. In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005.
In this episode we will be discussing his 2021 book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books), unmasks the industry of professional enablers that assist the ultra-wealthy to hide wealth and dodge taxes, however he is a featured author of many other books.
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resources and links lifted up in this episode:
The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington
Gene Sharp’s Pillars of Support (that uphold a system of support)
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