It’s not all doom and gloom in the world today. It’s boom time for billionaires and the super-rich!
Today at 2,668 there are 573 more billionaires in the world than in 2020; their combined wealth equal nearly to 14 per cent of global GDP (Forbes, April 2022).
Remember the $9 trillion fiscal stimulus that central banks unleashed during the pandemic?
Much of that went into the financial markets and then into the pockets of the super-rich (New Internationalist, Feb 2022/ Oxfam, May 2022).
And all the while, banks and corporations make record profits.
Imagine ‘all the people’ sharing all the world…
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
