About

Most Americans work hard for their families and want to make their communities better, but the ultra-rich work hard to hoard wealth for themselves and their families, for social status and power. The Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute is working to curb excessive wealth so that all Americans can thrive.

The Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute was created in 2022 to focus attention on the wealth inequality created by extreme concentrations of wealth in the hands of a small segment of our society – just 0.1 percent of households – who have more assets than two-thirds of Americans. Our mission is to create a more balanced distribution of wealth by elevating policy solutions focused on curbing the excessive wealth of the nation’s richest individuals.

We believe the solution lies in policies like taxing the excessively wealthy so that we can reinvest in critical public services like healthcare, education and climate change mitigation.

We are working to achieve these goals by:

(1) funding research and conducting educational outreach to study the top 0.1 percent and societal impacts of excessive wealth, and to change the cultural narrative around the ultra-rich among policy makers, media, philanthropists, and the public

(2) supporting and amplifying campaigns led by existing nonprofits (particularly those run by or serving BIPOC) to address various aspects of wealth inequality

(3) working directly with high-net-worth individuals to generate support for taxing the ultra-rich and related solutions