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Falling interest rates in recent years pushed up real estate prices and allowed America’s upper middle
class
to treat their houses as enormous ATM’s, lowering savings still more.
Clearly, the politics of cultural identity has eclipsed that of socioeconomic
class
in the US.
As a 30-something, gay member of the Berlin political class, Spahn may seem like an odd mouthpiece for an attack on cosmopolitanism.
Indeed, in virtually all advanced economies, high levels of inequality, strains on the middle class, and aging populations will fuel political strife in a context of unemployment and scarce fiscal resources.
That means that countries with a large domestic market and a prosperous middle
class
will have an important advantage.
A technologically stagnant agricultural society is bound to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper
class
push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.
The first component is the classic French Republican prohibition on gathering data in the official census – or by government agencies or public or private enterprises – on ethnicity, religion, and even social
class.
But the absence of a secondary breakdown of such data, like the UK-style, four-fold
class
analysis (plus examination of patterns of unemployment by ethnicity or religion), makes it hard for social workers, public heath officials, and economic planners to diagnose new problems.
With countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin American fearing that, having reached the international middle class, they could be stuck there, Greece and Argentina shed light on how that might happen.
Greece joined the international upper middle
class
in 1972, and then took 28 years to reach the top income group, in 2000.
Sluggish exports mean slow growth, which in turn places limits on social mobility and the expansion of an entrepreneurial middle
class.
Latin America has more (formal) democracy, higher foreign-trade turnover, a larger middle class, and more advanced technology than it had 20 years ago.
There was an idea, originally derived from Ricardo and Marx, that the capitalist
class
needed a “reserve army of the unemployed” to maintain its profit share.
Russia's political
class
has ample grounds to be slyly and cynically proud of the system they invented - it guarantees the result it wants.
Despite its lack of drama, intrigue, and competitiveness, the election was important not because Russia's political
class
renounced all the key elements of authentic democratic electoral procedures, but because it closed the chapter on Russia's liberal democratic experiment, legitimizing Putin's new Russian political system.
Failure, moreover, will likely bring with it a split in the political class, making it very difficult to find a single candidate to become Putin's successor.
Both political parties serve their rich campaign contributors, while proclaiming that they defend the middle
class.
What passes for American political debate is a contest between the parties to give bigger promises to the middle class, mainly in the form of budget-busting tax cuts at a time when the fiscal deficit is already more than 10% of GDP.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has tried to regain popularity with the working
class
by deporting Roma migrants, a target of widespread hatred and ethnic attacks.
Instead of a specific insurance scheme, Colombia created conditions for a new
class
of insurers to compete for clients and a new funding mechanism to finance them.
First, the “loss” of the Cold War, and with it imperial and superpower status, has created a deep and so far unresolved crisis in the collective mentality of Russia’s political
class.
It is estimated that about 70% of the drugs currently in development across the industry are potential “first in class” treatments, meaning that they use a completely new mechanism of action against disease.
Will the endgame be renewed
class
warfare, with populist governments coming to power, stretching the limits of income redistribution, and asserting greater state control over economic life?
Trumpism promises to make life simpler, less regulated, and free of dictates from an administrative
class
by getting rid of international entanglements.
But at least the West’s working
class
had access to cheap loans and inflated house prices to offset the impact of stagnant wages and declining fiscal transfers.
Born in 1936 into one of the wealthiest Czech families, Havel was one of the people persecuted because of their "wrong
class
origins" after the Communist takeover of 1948.
Seeing this, many people fear a new dominant
class
intolerably manipulating globalization for its betterment.
This could have happened sooner if the Bush administration had supported tax cuts for the poor and middle class, rather than for the rich.
Ahmadinejad maintains some support among the poor and rural classes, but he is viewed with disdain by much of the ruling class, even within his own political camp.
Given that threat, Trump’s economic populism will most likely manifest itself through abstinence – avoiding pro-market measures that clearly hurt the white working
class.
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