Showing posts with label Thomas Piketty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Piketty. Show all posts
Monday, August 20, 2018

The Tobin Q ratios for Germany and America tell us Elizabeth Warren and David Dayen are wrong

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Louis Woodhill, here : Put simply, a Tobin Q ratio higher than 100% means that a company is creating economic value, and a Tobin Q bel...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Updated: Global middle class hits one billion in 2014, but has actually declined since 2010

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So reported the Times of India here  in October: Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report 2014 released on Tuesday says that there a...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

A little satire on French economist Thomas Piketty, by yours truly

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Thomas Piketty has written a big book, whose thesis is rickety says Bloomberg's Clive Crook, mistaken about wages both minim...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The rapid rise of income inequality in the US dates from the close of the gold window

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From The New York Sun, here : The top decile's share of income went from something like 33% in 1971 to above 47% by 2010. Hm...

As for all good Marxists, Thomas Piketty's biggest problem is eliminating the middle class

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From The Wall Street Journal here : While America's corporate executives are his special bête noire, Mr. Piketty is also deeply ...

And you thought I was kidding when I called Thomas Piketty's new book a novel

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth for Real Clear Markets, here , eviscerates Thomas Piketty's presentation on the minimum wage: One might ov...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Quelle Surprise: Clive Crook Reads Thomas Piketty And Comes Out For Capital Accumulation

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Here he is at Bloomberg View having read Thomas Piketty's new . . . um . . . novel, Capital in the 21st Century , and found it want...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

The One Chart Which Best Explains The Reason For The Growth Of Income Inequality In The US

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The chart comes from The Motley Fool, here , and has nothing to do per se with the subject of the current debate abou...