"Penned by longtime economic researcher and campaigner Chuck Collins, a leading thinker and writer on inequality in America, "Oligarch Watch" will profile the plutocrats wielding their wealth and power to further enrich themselves at the expense of workers, our communities, and our environment. Crisscrossing industries and centers of power in the US, Collins will tackle oligarchy in action to spotlight the crushing monopoly power billionaires yield,"
"Collins's first installment, " Ralph de la Torre: The Making of a Healthcare Oligarch," looks at one man's rise to unaccountable power and the price the rest of us pay-in money and in blood. His second, " Meet the 'Coal-i-garch' Jim Grech, CEO of Peabody Energy," reports on Trump's extraordinary and unprecedented payback schemes to further enrich the fossil fuel oligarchs who helped get him elected."
The Nation launched "Oligarch Watch," a new monthly column aimed at exposing plutocrats and monopoly power during the magazine's 160th anniversary year. Chuck Collins, a longtime economic researcher and campaigner, will profile billionaires who use wealth and influence to enrich themselves at others' expense. The column will examine oligarchy across industries and centers of US power, highlighting impacts on housing, healthcare, democracy, and the climate. Early installments focus on Ralph de la Torre as a healthcare oligarch and Jim Grech of Peabody Energy tied to fossil-fuel payback schemes. The column frames these concentrations of power as harmful to the public good.
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