financial elite
Moneyed ruling class
The financial elite are the small class of people who control disproportionate wealth and wield influence over economic policy and institutions—bankers, hedge fund managers, major investors, and the families behind old money.
The term often carries critical connotations, implying that this group operates in its own interest rather than the public good: The financial elite benefited from the bailout while ordinary people lost their homes.
- plutocratsRulers through financial power
- oligarchsWealthy few who govern
- billionairesPeople with vast fortunes
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- mogulsBumps or bigwigs
Wall Street · hedge funds · bankers · aristocracy · wealth · privilege · power · mansions · yachts · private jets · influence · lobbying · offshore · tax havens · Swiss bank accounts · old money · dynasties · Davos
- elite poweroligarchy, plutocracy, oligarch, plutocrat, oligarchs
financial eliteworking class
Manual laborers collectively
poor · underclass · the poor · lower class · proletariat
financial elitedisenfranchised
Deprived of voting rights
voiceless · marginalized · grassroots · powerless · rank and file
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