Showing posts with label Wealth Inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wealth Inequality. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2026

US economic growth peaked during the Reagan administration because America is a debt-based economy and we turned our backs on the formula during it

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 The trend for the growth of the total universe of US debt, TCMDO or total credit market debt outstanding, rolled over after 1985, one year ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

I stopped caring about this particular economic measure when I realized that it obscures the fact that the top 20% in this country receive 60% of the income it displays

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Frankly, most of the economic charts produced by the government do this kind of thing. Most of the time the rich use this data to tell you h...
Friday, May 1, 2026

Dirty Rotten CEOs in the news

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CEO pay soars 20 times faster than workers...     ...  The average CEO received $8.4m in total compensation in 2025 compared to $7.6m in 202...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

How many millions do you need in Jan 2026 to be a Jan 1913 millionaire?

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 33.19 AI estimates between 208-225k Americans had net worth of $30 million or more in 2025. 
Friday, January 30, 2026

The wealth inequality of today's K-shaped economy goes back to the Reagan Revolution

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Wealth inequality and the ‘K-shaped’ economy are more striking than ever, data shows   They take vacations and buy luxury goods. You struggl...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Adam Tooze: Central bankers' hands were forced in 2010, the poor dears, they aren't the lords of easy money, no, they're its slaves, just like us

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  Here , for The New York Times: If you are worried about wealth inequality in the United States, then the solution is not to tighten mone...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Oliver Bullough for The Grauniad blames all the wealth inequality today on an invention of a Jewish banker

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Siegmund George Warburg, here , whose invention destroyed the Bretton Woods system. Except Bullough never mentions he's the descen...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Robert Shiller blames housing bubbles on get rich quick flipper narratives, still completely misses the tax angle

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Here , in The New York Times: There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because t...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Libertarian John Tamny displays the anti-intellectualism characteristic of the breed

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Here in "The Beatles And Wealth Inequality: A Reminder That Education Is Irrelevant To Success". It's a veritable cornu...