Sentences with phrase «billionaire class»
The phrase "billionaire class" refers to a group of extremely wealthy individuals who possess over a billion dollars in wealth. Full definition
Twenty years later, that landscape is shifting once again, with a new crop of entrepreneurs elbowing their way into the ranks of Canada's billionaire class.
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he'd take on the billionaire class and help fix an economy that's rigged against the little guy.
Despite the fact that increased regulation has helped to crimp profits on Wall Street in recent years, shares in Goldman Sachs (GS) have doubled in the past three years, gaining enough that the bank's CEO Lloyd Blankfein has now officially joined the ranks of the billionaire class — he now has a net worth of $ 1.1 billion, according to Bloomberg News.
Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rails against the «billionaire class,» has called income inequality «the greatest moral issue of our time,» and has made a big point of contrasting his earnings against his peers in this election.
«In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people and the middle class, rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class,» he told This Week's George Stephanopolous in May.
We could take on New York's corrupt political establishment and the billionaire class on Wall Street by passing campaign finance and ethics reform.
When the people show up at the polls in large numbers the billionaire class along with the corporatist politicians they have bought off will be sent from the temples of government.
As Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont just said announcing a possible presidential run: «I think anybody who speaks to the needs of the working class and middle class of this country and shows the courage to take on the billionaire class, I think that candidate will do pretty well.»
The Republicans and the billionaire class want us to be divided; let's do the opposite.
«We need a Democratic National Committee led by a progressive who understands the dire need to listen to working families, not the political establishment or the billionaire class,» Sanders said in backing Ellison — who backed Sanders for president last year.
And he stumped for her in the district, where he said she would be a «leader who will stand up to the billionaire class and tell them they can not have it all.»
«You need a leader who will stand up to the billionaire class and tell them they can not have it all.»
«We can do it if we have the guts to become involved in the political process, if you have the guts to take on the billionaire class and fight for our children and our perks,» Sanders said.
«With our victory tonight in Wisconsin we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries,» Sanders said, before ticking off the usual points of his stump speech: fighting the billionaire class, providing healthcare for all and ending mass incarceration.
Otherwise, much of his speech rehashed his usual talking points: the undue influence of the «billionaire class,» the crisis of climate change, the need to defeat Donald Trump and — of course — the nefarious machinations of the «establishment.»
«Everybody I know that is a small owner of real estate that isn't within the billionaire class — average middle - class, upper - middle - class Miamians who have real estate on the beach — is in the process of selling their properties and moving to the mainland,» Keenan said.
The Constellation is a measure in contradictions, as many things made for the billionaire class are.