Category Archives: Economics

Middle Class economy 21st cen

The Fortune 500 generated a total of $824.5 billion in earnings last year, up 16.4% over 2010. That beats the previous record of $785 billion, set in 2006 during a roaring economy. Continue reading

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The Rich Get Richer

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
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Divided State of America

A significant and growing portion of the population lives in poverty. In 2007, the rate was 12.5 percent. By 2010, it was 15.1 percent. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-poor-are-the-americans-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/2012/01/18/gIQADZM5BQ_story.html Third world America: Bodies driven to a pauper’s burial in a U-Haul as tough economic … Continue reading

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Dick Morris spins Bain Romney

“Crony capitalism, where people pay each other off at the expense of the people of this country, is not free enterprise, and raising questions about that is not wrong,” Gingrich said in South Carolina. Americans, he said, should know whether … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney Bain Capital 2012 election

Romney’s role at Bain was not to create jobs but to provide for good returns for his investors. For more on this subject, look at our examination of Romney’s untenable figure. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-the-cnn-debate-in-charleston/2012/01/19/gIQALs8dCQ_blog.html These are intelligence indicators concerning the economy’s future … Continue reading

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Manufacturing creates wealth

Land represents unchanging wealth. True tangible wealth comes from the land: timber, coal, gold, oil, copper ore and iron ore that is manufactured into steel and then formed into cars and refrigerators. And farming. American farmers can produce much of … Continue reading

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The FED is private

The quote below describes what happened. It started out as a real estate boom and bust, driven by ultralow interest rates and a bubble in credit and lending….It then slowly morphed into a full-blown credit crunch, where commercial lending ceased. … Continue reading

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laissez faire capitalism – Where are the good jobs?

jhherring wrote: Orthodox conservatism has long held that the collapse of the USSR was inevitable (though sped by Reagan’s policies) because of the internal contradictions of socialism. The internal contradictions, which mean that true socialism will inevitably fail, are real … Continue reading

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Middle Class Stories Change for the American Dream

Middle Class Stories Structural Change for the American Dream Sad stories abound in the news about fellow citizens who have lost their place in society. Through no fault of their own, once prosperous middle class professionals and the working class … Continue reading

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Facts about Financial MELTdown

Absence of individual and institutional accountability for illegal trading activity, along with congenital greed, accounts for the culture of corruption that pervades the financialization industry. Unless you’re a rogue trader or slip on your ego like Bernie Madoff, penalties are … Continue reading

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