Mini-thread: Who will win #SuperBowlLV? Why, the owners! The collective net worth of 64 billionaires who own 68 pro franchises soared by $98.5 billion over the past 10 months of pandemic, notes the Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC. (1/4) https://bit.ly/3aAhMUJ 
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021

Billionaires Win, We Lose

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This follows on the group's earlier analysis showing that US billionaires as a whole have cashed in BIG TIME on our nation's misery. I wrote about that in @MotherJones. (2/4) https://bit.ly/2LjBM5v 
The pandemic has made US billionaires $1.1 trillion richer

Enjoy your $600 stimulus check

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Some of those billionaires were key bankrollers of now ex-President Trump's "coup caucus." (3/4) https://bit.ly/3rrkzqn 
These 10 billionaires went all-in trying to get Donald Trump reelected

Meet the top individual financiers of the "Coup Caucus"

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Even merely "ultrawealthy" Americans—folks with assets of $30 million and up—were back in the black by the end of August 2020, and they've fared even better since. In any case, enjoy your stimulus check! (4/4) https://bit.ly/3pP3Lc9 
The wealthiest Americans already got a V-shaped recovery—and a tax cut to boot

"You've got capitalism for gains and socialism for losses."

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