Synopsis:

Even if you don’t begrudge the ultra-rich their multiple vacation homes, fancy boats, and private jets, the truth is that billionaire power touches you –where you live, what you pay for housing, what you eat, and what news you consume.  In this explosive new book, Chuck Collins, a leading scholar of economic inequality, chronicles how the actions of the top .01% have severe consequences for the rest of us.

Presenter:

Chuck Collins is an American author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is also co-founder of Wealth for Common Good. He is an expert on economic inequality in the US, and has pioneered efforts to bring together investors and business leaders to speak out publicly against corporate practices and economic policies that increase economic inequality.