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"The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 18 hours ago

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 18 hours ago

"When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food
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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 18 hours ago

"Contrast [what Bunch says] to a prominently displayed New York Times feature story that puts a nostalgic gloss on Epstein’s world. Looking back on that world and the people who inhabited it, it carried the headline, Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein #food #prices #beef #coffee #tariffs #HealthInsurance #food #NewYorkTimes
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/two-opposing-media-takes-on-epsteins

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 18 hours ago

"The Jeffrey Epstein story makes no sense unless you realize that he was deeply entrenched in the foreign policy elite, a fact that gave him much of the impunity he enjoyed for most of his life. Powerful people felt comfortable around Epstein because he was one of them."

~ Jeet Heer

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/

The Nation

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.

Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 18 hours ago

"But the documents also reveal the stunning breadth of Epstein’s connections among the nation’s elite, including long after his initial 2008 sex crimes conviction, and the extent to which other men in positions of great power considered him a confidant or voice of reason."

~ Moira Donegan

#Trump #EconomicElites #wealth #EconomicDisparity #WealthDistribution #SuperRich #GildedAge #Epstein
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/jeffrey-epstein-emails-elites

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