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Huffington Post
Information about the extent of Thomas Friedman's wealth provides context for how he's accustomed to moving through the world, says Norman Solomon. (Friedman's wife is Ann Bucksbaum, heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune estimated at $2.7 billion.) "His outsized economic privileges become especially relevant when we consider that he's inclined to be glib and even flip as he advocates policies that give very low priority to reducing economic inequality," writes Solomon.