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Tag Archives: 99%
The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior. Well I never…
Good piece in today’s Real World Economics telling us what we always suspected: “The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior.” The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior, being more likely to believe – as … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Processes, Conflict Statistics, Economic Conflict, Neuro-science of conflict
Tagged 1%, 99%, rich sociopaths
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What I Really Think of Mitt Romney’s 47% Speech
Someone asked me what I thought of Mitt Romney’s recently leaked speech vilifying the 47% who don’t pay Federal Income Tax. Well apart from thinking it a fine piece of political kamikaze, morally I replied: What Mitt Romney ignored when … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Humor, Economic Conflict, US Political Conflict
Tagged 1%, 47%, 99%, Mitt Romney
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Free Market Fundamentalism: Top Ten Failings
Like any fundamentalism, Free Market Fundamentalism is necessarily involved in a profound denial of many aspects of reality. What is worse for us all, is that since around 1980 we have been all involved in a massive experiment to see … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict History, Conflict Humor, Conflict Processes, Economic Conflict, Environmental Conflict, Religious Conflict, Top Ten Conflict Tips from Great Thinkers, US Political Conflict, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged !%, 0.1%, 99%, Alan Greenspan, conservative economics, economic inequality, free market fundamentalism, political corruption
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What Do the Top 0.1% in the US Earn?
Well as regular readers of this blog know, I like statistics. And I liked this table in today’s Real World Economics at: Percent of income earned by top 0.1 percent of taxpayers – 6 countries – chart which shows just how … Continue reading
US Median Net Wealth Among Lowest of Developed Countries
Interesting graph in Real World Economics today showing just how low median (half the population have more, half have less) net wealth is in the US especially compared with its income. Remember, wealth is the total value of a household’s … Continue reading
$20 Trillion Dollars (13 Trillion Pounds) Hidden from Tax Authorities by Global Elite
I grew up in a conservative family within a very conservative suburban environment with an extended family of conservative small business people. This milieu stressed personal accountability, modest life style, obeying the law, and thrift. Most of the conservatives I … Continue reading
Global Economic Crisis: the Premonitory Five Versus ‘Faith Based’ Economics
Given how catastrophically Neo-Classical Chicago Style economics aka faith based economics, failed to understand the dangers the world economy is facing, it is good to read those economists who did not fall for all the Chicago bs. I love the … Continue reading
The Rich, the Camel and the Eye of the Needle
I liked this piece from Susan Feiner in today’s Real World Economics, a great source of reality based economics that is trying to undo the Chicago School madness of recent decades. See http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/and-the-rich-get-richer/ A camel and a rich man walked into … Continue reading
The Absurdity of Much Comment on Government Deficits
So much nonsense is being talked about the fiscal deficits in the media, by our elite rulers and by those with a vested interest in showing free markets work oh so well. I therefore liked Peter Radford’s piece in Real … Continue reading
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