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“With brilliant insight & gripping prose, Chuck Collins tells like it is! You’ll jump out of your seat with clear vision and new energy for democracy with fairness for all.”
- Bestselling author @francesmoorelappe.bsky.social recommending my new book #BurnedByBillionaires (burnedbybillionaires.com)
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
On Thurs. 11/13, the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice (clbsj.org) will host an online conversation between co-founder Ched Myers and me! We've both written prolifically on how folks are burned and fooled by billionaires and affluenza. Register in advance: clbsj.org/events/2025/...
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
On Thursday, November 20 at 7 pm, I'll be coming to @odysseybks.bsky.social in Pioneer Valley MA to talk all things #BurnedbyBillionaires.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/chuck-coll...
#WealthInequality
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We're living in a hyper-extreme phase of inequality, made intentionally mysterious. burnedbybillionaires.com is here to de-mystify it! We'll continue this convo tomorrow (Wed 11/05) from 7 to 8:30 at @phoenixbooks.biz. Join us if you're near Burlington! Get tix here: phoenixbooks.biz/event/2025-1...
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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And just exactly how much consumer fleecing does it take to produce the likes of this? #StopTheBillionaires
Have you needed veterinary attention for a beloved pet in recent years and noticed higher costs for vaccines & routine exams? It's no coincidence: Billionaires are burning you.

⏰Check out my recent article in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📖Then read www.burnedbybillionaires.com
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The vet that I went to for over a decade sold out. Who has a vet that doesn't work for a profit-hungry corporation, anymore?
Have you needed veterinary attention for a beloved pet in recent years and noticed higher costs for vaccines & routine exams? It's no coincidence: Billionaires are burning you.

⏰Check out my recent article in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📖Then read www.burnedbybillionaires.com
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Have you needed veterinary attention for a beloved pet in recent years and noticed higher costs for vaccines & routine exams? It's no coincidence: Billionaires are burning you.

⏰Check out my recent article in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

📖Then read www.burnedbybillionaires.com
The Billionaire Oligarchs Are Coming for Your Pets
And they want to make bigger profits.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Are you feeling the Billionaire Burn? (Spoiler: We all are!) My new book Burned By Billionaires is available now! www.burnedbybillionaires.com
Join our book event in Burlington on 11/5: phoenixbooks.biz/event/2025-1...
And our book event in Norwich on 11/6: www.norwichbookstore.com/events/35637...
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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On top of tax-breaks & loopholes for the wealthy, Trump is now defunding the IRS. Life is good for the super-rich, at the expense of everyone else. Cartoon from the wonderful book #Burnedbybillionaires by @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social Drawn by Jason Patterson @itep.org @patrioticmillionaires.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For 1 minute, follow the Roadmap to Richistan to learn some of what I explore in my new book #BurnedByBillionaires: The ultra-wealthy got there by exploiting all of us, and we can stop them together. Read it, protest, put out the flames: www.burnedbybillionaires.com #Inequality
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Since THE @nancymaclean.bsky.social, author of Democracy In Chains, recommends my new book #BurnedByBillionaires, you should definitely check it out!
I read @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social's new book #BurnedByBillionaires. It's an incisive must-read account of how we are all being hurt by those with excessive wealth, also providing hard-won wisdom about what can be done to unrig the system before they wreck our world www.burnedbybillionaires.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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“I'm thrilled to share that my latest book, #BurnedbyBillionaires, has just been released! 🔥
It's a look at how the ultrawealthy are ruining our economy, society, and planet, and what we might be able to do about it.
@chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social
www.chuckcollinswrites.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
HAPPY RELEASE DAY to Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth & Power are Ruining our Lives & Planet! @laurenaratani.bsky.social says it; I'm "optimistic that there can be change," especially with coverage like this: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Buy now: thenewpress.org/books/burned...
Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality
As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Honored to share a #BurnedByBillionaires blurb from Brooke Harrington, Professor of Sociology @ Dartmouth (@ebharrington.bsky.social): “An electrifying call to action… Should be required reading for all our elected representatives.” Check it out, on shelves 10/08!
thenewpress.org/books/burned...
October 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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NEW: “[The wealthy] have bought their jets, they've bought their mansions, but now they’re buying senators and media outlets.”

In a new interview with @laurenaratani.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com, IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social lays out the "chapter of hyper-extraction" that we're entering:
Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality
As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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New book alert! #Inequality scholars:, don't miss Chuck Collins' new book: Burned by Billionaires. It's both breezy and fact-filled. "An economy that funnels wealth to billionaires ... fuels division and civil discord."
@inequality.org
@thenewpress.bsky.social

thenewpress.org/books/burned...
Burned by Billionaires - The New Press
An exposé of the hidden impact of America’s überwealthy on the country’s economy, environmental health, housing market, and political system Even if you don’t begrudge the ultrarich their multiple va...
thenewpress.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My new book #BurnedByBillionaires was the 🔥hot topic🔥at the Make Billionaires Pay march in NYC. Read it and put out the flames. On shelves OCTOBER 8: thenewpress.org/books/burned...
#MakeBillionairesPay #Oligarchy @thenewpress.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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NEW: In his latest book, BURNED BY BILLIONAIRES, IPS senior scholar @chuck77.bsky.social lays out his life's research on the detailed harms and solutions of wealth concentration in an "electrifying call to action."

Get 30% off if you pre-order before October 1:
Get 30% Off Chuck Collins’ New Book! - Institute for Policy Studies
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September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"Science Under Siege & Burned by Billionaires: Michael Mann and Chuck Collins on Defending Truth and Democracy" | I spoke with Francesca Rheannon of the @writersvoice.bsky.social podcast about my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege: www.writersvoice.net/2025/09/scie...
SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE & BURNED BY BILLIONAIRES: Michael Mann and Chuck Collins on Defending Truth and Democracy
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Today, we look at two urgent threats to our world: the assault on science and the concentration of wealth. …
www.writersvoice.net
September 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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NEW: Even before Trump stepped in to help them, private equity has been destabilizing our economy — including by worsening the housing crisis, as IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social shows in his new book, Burned by Billionaires.

@timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com:
The Financial Sector Was Tottering Even Before Trump
The president is making it worse, of course. But as private equity sweats to bring ever higher returns to billionaires, it risks beggaring you and me.
newrepublic.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#WealthInequality #Oligarchy

In his new book Burned by Billionaires, inequality researcher Chuck Collins argues that the system that perpetuates wealth inequality is purposely opaque to most Americans.

* 10% of the population owns 93% of stock market wealth.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality
As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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WATCH: Airport developers are claiming "sustainable aviation fuels" as a solution to private jet pollution. On @wgbh.org, IPS scholar @chuck77.bsky.social exposes the problem: There is no possible way to scale these fuels nationally.

Learn more at spje.org.
September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
At 7 pm on Thurs. November 20, I'll be at @odysseybks in South Hadley, MA! Less than a month until #BurnedByBillionaires hits bookshelves: thenewpress.org/books/burned-by-billionaires
It's a free event but spots will fill up, so make sure to reserve yours ASAP! www.odysseybks.com/event/chuck-...
www.odysseybks.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Burlington friends! The New Press releases my book "Burned by Billionaires" on Oct. 7: thenewpress.org/books/burned...
That gives you almost a month to read it before my evening chat at Phoenix Books Burlington on Nov. 5.
Get your tickets now!
phoenixbooks.biz/event/2025-1... #WealthInequality
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM