We're seeing tent cities & massive homelessness in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing: Will America remove housing from their clutches? It seems that everywhere you look in America you see the tragedy of homelessness. Rarely, though, do you hear that Wall Street is helping cause it.

Thirty-two percent seems to be the magic threshold, according to new research funded by the real estate listing company Zillow. When neighborhoods hit rent rates in excess of 32 percent of neighborhood income, homelessness explodes. And we're seeing it play out right in front of us in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Wall Street's Barons are Causing Homelessness: Can We Stop Them?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Real Median Personal Income in the United States" by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Article: "Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States" by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Article: "Household Experiences In America During The Delta Variant Outbreak" by NPR.

Book: Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare by Ryan Dezember.

Article: "Welcome to the Rentership Society" by HomeUnion.

Article: "The danger of foreign buyers gobbling up American homes" by Dan Barnabic.

Article: "US Population by Year" by MULTPL.

Article: "2020 International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate" by National Association of Realtors.

Site: "National Home Rental Council".

Article: "Is Wall Street upending Nashville neighborhoods? These professors want to know" by Mike Reicher.

Article: "How the Composition of Wealth Differs, from the Middle Class to the Top 1%" by Nick Routley.

Article: "The cost of housing is tearing our society apart" by Derek Fidler, Hicham Sabir.

Article: "Meet Your New Landlord: Wall Street" by Ryan Dezember, Laura Kusisto.

Article: "Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income" by Chris Glynn, Alexander Casey.

Article: "Trump warns GOP his supporters 'will not be voting' unless they make 'Election Fraud of 2020' their top priority " by Brad Reed.

Tweet: "holy fucking shit, vaccine mandates are causing teachers who don't believe in science to quit, nurses who don't believe in medicine to quit, and cops who don't believe in public safety to quit. I'm failing to see the downside to this" by Jeff Tiedrich.

Article: "Buying Property In Malaysia As A Foreigner" by Loanstreet.

Article: "How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possible" by DailyHistory.org.

Article: "United Airlines Terminates 232 Workers For Not Taking Covid Vaccine" by RTTNews.

Case: "Kelo v. City of New London" (eminent domain).

Article: "David Souter" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Is Merrick Garland a Mafia State Enabler?
- Sarah Kendzior, Writer & scholar. Co-host of @gaslitnation (podcast) / Author - Hiding in Plain Sight

Thread: ""Merrick Garland is a mafia state enabler. He is an anti-American attorney general, not only because he fails to take action on attacks against America, but because he goes out of his way to protect the attackers." -- @gaslitnation" by Sarah Kendzior.

Article: "Running Out the Clock" by Gaslit Nation.

Article: "Jan. 6 committee will 'immediately' move to seek criminal charges against Steve Bannon if he is a no-show today" by David Badash.

Article: "Time to Say "You're Fired" to Merrick Garland?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jamie Gorelick" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alan Dershowitz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fifth column" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Christopher A. Wray" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Black 'American' flags at right-wing protests, on front porches vow 'no quarter' against liberals" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Why Saudi Arabia bought 14,000 acres of US farm land " by Elliot Spagat and Aya Batrawy.

Article: "Mayor Lightfoot Provides Update on City Employee Vaccine Policy" by Lori E. Lightfoot.

Article: "Dean Angelo Sr., former FOP president, dies after COVID-19 hospitalization " by Sylvia Goodman.

Article: "Chicago's police union chief urges officers to defy city's vaccine mandate" by Marlene Lenthang.

Article: "Chicago may be short as many as 1,600 cops" by Dana Kozlov.

Video: The marijuana effect.

Article: "William T. Anderson" by Wikipedia.

Site: Remember Fort Pillow.

Article: "Alan Berg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "AG Merrick Garland rebukes dubious ballot reviews 'based on disinformation' and says the DOJ will double its voting rights staff" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "After Docs 'Show What We Feared' About Amazon's Monopoly Power, Warren Says 'Break It Up'" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Jan. 6 committee to recommend criminal contempt citation for Trump adviser Steve Bannon" by PressNewsAgency.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Reagan Assault on Antitrust" by Eddie Correia.

Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fallen Master of the Universe: Michael Milkin" by Thomas Mccarroll.

Article: "Oligopoly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Antitrust was defined by Robert Bork. I cannot overstate his influence.'" by Dylan Matthews.

Article: "Robert Bork" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over 'years' of poor treatment" by Michael Sainato.

Article: "Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike?" by Robert Reich.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Progressive Group's Poll Suggests Deep Primary Trouble For Kyrsten Sinema" by Kevin Robillard.

Article: "Sinema's Reign Shows How Political Corruption Can Destroy America Like Metastasized Cancer" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The post office arrested Steve Bannon. Yes, the post office can arrest people." by Nicole Narea.

Article: "Trump pardons Steve Bannon as one of his final acts in office" by Pamela Brown, Paul LeBlanc and Kaitlan Collins.

Article: "Senate to vote on Freedom to Vote Act next week, Schumer says" by Sommer Brokaw.

Bill: "S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act" by Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN].

Article: "Think a mild case of COVID-19 is no big deal? Think again." by Trish Zornio.

Article: "Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19" by Adam Hampshire, William Trender, Samuel R Chamberlain, Amy E. Jolly, Jon E. Grant, Fiona Patrick et al.

Article: "GOP's SCOTUS strategy misfire: Orrin Hatch is blowing apart the Republicans' obstructionist argument" by Simon Maloy.

Article: "Jamie Raskin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ted Cruz Spitefully Delaying Biden Ambassador Nominees Over Russia Pipeline" by Peter Wade.

Article: "Gavin Newsom Signs Bills to Roll Back Single-family Zoning in California" by Joel B. Pollak.

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