No future is exactly what we should all be reading in the pro-natalist moment. www.thenewsminute.com/opinion/no-p...

Heirs property and inheritance inequality. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/b...

Leaving Property to Your Heirs Can Lead to Headache, not Robust Wealth

Real estate passed down without a clear title of ownership can prevent families from creating generational wealth.

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What Buffett Says. And What Buffett does. Talked to Fortune about this one.

Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family's foundations. The way he's doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works | Fortune

People assumed Buffett was avoiding taxes or warehousing the money. Experts say the more telling question is how he's giving it away.

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One of the original forms of the surveillance state? Credit ratings. This week's post is a book preview and recounts how credit rating have always been not only moral as well as financial accountings but also tools for the surveillance of populations and the security of capital.

How We Learned to Love Being Watched

Creditworthiness, credit ratings, and how the system trained us to give up our data privacy

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What we're not talking about when it comes to the "great wealth transfer": Almost three quarters of those expected to inherit from Baby Boomers are already in the top 10% by household net worth. www.wealthmanagement.com/high-net-wor...

Wealth Transfer Will Boost Richest Families Most

Almost three-quarters of those set to inherit from Baby Boomers are already in the top 10% by household net worth

wealthmanagement.com

Family money is building media houses and dynastic wealth is accumulating and consolidating in real time. The Ellisons, The Redstones. The Murdochs. It's old-home day at the billionaire club. www.craincurrency.com/investing/fa...

Family money is buying control of the American newsroom — and answering to no one

Recent purchases of media properties are raising questions about editorial independence.

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Friends. I've got a new book website. No cat pics, yet. But check it out anyway. www.allisonannatait.com

Allison Anna Tait I Author

Explore the legal causes of wealth inequality with Allison Anna Tait, Author.

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Empire strikes back

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

seems bad

Way to deflect from wealth taxes. Very not transparent.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo ago

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington,” the Amazon chairman said.

Imagine debasing yourself Peter Thiel's marketing guy and thinking you have the room to sneer at *anyone* much less a goddamn MacArthur Fellowship winner with a PhD. "Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man."

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

On this day in 1996, the Supreme Court decided Romer v. Evans, striking down an amendment to the Colorado Constitution that prohibited the state from including gay people in anti-discrimination protections. Justice Scalia wrote a furious dissent. #WeTheMen

The scale is horrifying. (The proposal is to let companies set their own line speed - but the current max is already *1,106* hogs/hour.)

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump administration is about to allow swine and poultry processing plants to vastly speed up their lines. That will make the companies more money while leading to far more worker injuries and food illness outbreaks. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

If you're interested in child support, pipelines to incarceration, and high-wealth exceptionalism, I've got a sneak preview from my forthcoming book for you. The book, The House That Family Money Built, publishes on September 15th with @ucpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Shocking stuff from the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust on his latest earnings call:

A nice example of how public hearings can mobilize democratic constituencies (laudatory).

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, Greg Baltz explains why New York City’s annual Rent Guidelines Board hearings are critical for tenant organizing, and why such organizing is essential to prepare for the real estate industry’s inevitable backlash. Co-published with @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social!

Second in a series about what the exceptions to coverture teach us. Spoiler alert: obtaining right for married women was tied to expanding support for the capital that drove markets. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

If you're looking for a little coverture history today, your wishes have come true. This week's Substack is about how the law imagined a woman's full legal personhood long before the end of coverture. It simply reserved that personhood for the Queen. allisontait.substack.com/p/to-be-the-...

To Be the Queen

On queens, coverture, and how law selectively extends personhood

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First there was a glimpse at the cover 🤩 Now the book is actually available to pre-order! 🎉 You can pre-order right now (great way to start the day)!! ⬇️ and very soon through @ucpress.bsky.social. 👍🏻 amzn.to/4tUCSV6

We’re in a new era of coverture. Coverture 2.0, however, is not just a return to the patriarchal household and a bevy of tradwives. Coverture 2.0 is a framework of legal oppression eroding the legal advances that gave women property rights. Read (and subscribe!) 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Coverture 2.0

Rebooting a legal regime of enforced dependency

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Celebrate with me 🥳🎊⭐️! I've turned in the last set of chapter proofs before my book goes into typesetting. Here’s the cover, which I love.

Friends in the inheritance law world, I'm delighted to announce the Sixth Biennial Critical Trusts and Estates Conference this coming October 9-10. We're hosting at Richmond Law and looking forward to a fantastic conference. Feel free to message me with questions! 🎉💰🎩⚖️

The best conference of the year! Come join us for the Richmond JFF. Meet great people, workshop papers, enjoy dinners and drinks, and get started on your summer project. Drop a comment with questions and I hope to see you in Richmond! 🎉🤩

University of Richmond School of Law@richmondlaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Calling all junior law faculty! Join us for the 2026 Junior Faculty Forum at Richmond Law on May 20-21 to present your scholarship, gain feedback, and network in a collegial setting. richmond.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Inheritance is a system in which norms solidify, wealth crystallizes, and power reproduces itself in ways both big and small. By exploring inheritance, we can see how assets and beliefs take uneven shape. Check out my Substack for weekly posts on Inheriting Inequality! allisontait.substack.com

Inheriting Inequality | Allison Tait | Substack

Everything begins and ends with an inheritance. And capital comes in all forms. Let’s explore how inheritance shapes both identity and inequality. Click to read Inheriting Inequality, by Allison Tait,...

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Here's a thought.... We have a poverty line, but not a wealth line. We think in floors and not ceilings. What would it look like to have a wealth line and design policy around it? And what would the number be? Read more in today's post 👇🏻💵 allisontait.substack.com/p/the-wealth...

The Wealth Line

Wealth taxes, billionaire flight, and the political economy of defining surplus

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Best read of the day. I so admire this writing. Whistling at the Edge of Law -- lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

Whistling at the Edge of Law

The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...

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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

this is from biscuit’s new york times profile, taken after she won the national book award for her first mystery thriller, BREAD GIRL

Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is The Menace's author photo, which she uses for her popular series of semi-autobiographical spy novels.

“Atiles shows how those in power weaponise colonial legality to legitimate the social, economic & political violence they commit against marginalised communities.” Vanessa Jiménez-Read reviews Crisis by Design by @joseatiles.bsky.social in our new issue. buff.ly/pPlI9yG @stanfordpress.bsky.social