out. You can’t wake this thing up with another cup of coffee. It’s had 20 cups already. It’s just going to go to sleep and pass out. The economy has been overstimulated. This is looking like the Great Depression of the early 1930s (2021, Russof).
Wealth transfer usually happens when the housing bubble bursts, and the crash of stock market occurs. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Institute for Policy Studies has partnered with Americans for Tax Fairness to track the explosive growth of U.S. billionaire wealth — one of the most disturbing signs of inequality during a crisis that has devastated ordinary families. The top five billionaires have seen their fortunes expand even more rapidly than the U.S. billionaire class as a whole. America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70 percent – from just short $3 trillion at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to over $5 trillion on October 15 of this year, according to Forbes data analyzed by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and
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