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Cicada

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3. Start the calculation Feb 1 and the gain disappears

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 07:28 PM

Jun 2020

Stocks crashed, costing billionaires hundreds of billions. The statistic in this claim starts at the bottom of the stock market and mainly describes billionaires recovering previous losses. Some industries have benefitted, such as mail order sales, but overall I doubt billionaires are better off.

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Grrrrrr: As 45 million Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires made $584 billion. [View all] kpete Jun 2020 OP

And repubs want to take away the $600/week unemployment money. Tech Jun 2020 #1

That should go anyway Calculating Jun 2020 #4

The rent is due... Newest Reality Jun 2020 #2

Start the calculation Feb 1 and the gain disappears Cicada Jun 2020 #3