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Once, on a visit to China, a deputy minister asked "Who in the America is in charge of materials distribution?"
According to the Congressional Budget Office, virtually all of the growth in pre-tax household income over the QE period (2009 to 2014) occurred in the upper decile of the US income distribution, where the Fed’s own Survey of Consumer Finances indicates that the bulk of equity holdings are concentrated.
Ensuring that the region’s already-skewed income
distribution
does not worsen – and, indeed, improves – is also essential.
In OECD countries, people in the top 10% of the income
distribution
earn around ten times more than people in the bottom 10% – up from seven times more nearly 30 years ago.
The critical point here is that a retail price includes not only the price of the goods but also
distribution
costs - wages of shop personnel, rent, advertising, profit margins, etc.
What goes for wages also goes for other
distribution
costs.
It will arise from Brussels, the spread of web-based buying habits, and the emergence of EU-wide retail
distribution.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in 2005 that “the fundamental character of regimes matters more today than the international
distribution
of power,” and Senator John McCain, a US presidential candidate, has urged removing Russia from the Group of Eight advanced countries.
More recently, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), which accounts for the
distribution
of wealth and social and environmental costs, showed that, while China’s per capita GDP has routinely grown at an annual rate exceeding 10% in the last three decades, per capita GPI leveled off in 1998, largely owing to mounting environmental damage and an increasingly uneven
distribution
of wealth.
(China’s wealth
distribution
is now as skewed as that of the United States, one of the most unequal developed countries, where the GPI has not risen since the late 1970’s.)
Instead, they can augment existing
distribution
networks in remote regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where poverty and disease are pervasive, distances are great, and roads will never be built.
The key to neutralizing the geopolitical advantage that Russia enjoys is to establish a unified energy policy with a Europe-wide regulatory authority which has precedence over national regulators and a Europe-wide
distribution
network.
Even during the crisis, banks’ capital-adequacy ratios were higher than the Basel II requirement of 8%, and their
distribution
of profits has been under the BRSA’s close supervision since 2008.
In 1979, the Friedmans could confidently claim that, in the absence of government-mandated discrimination (for example, the South’s segregationist Jim Crow laws), the market economy would produce a sufficiently egalitarian
distribution
of income.
The end of American preeminence in education, the collapse of private-sector unions, the emergence of a winner-take-all information-age economy, and the return of Gilded Age-style high finance have produced an extraordinarily unequal pre-tax
distribution
of income, which will burden the next generation and make a mockery of equality of opportunity.
Clearly, major
distribution
platforms like Facebook need to be more heavily regulated.
Issues linked to inequality, the
distribution
of wealth, and our exploitation of the natural world will become increasingly salient.
But more accurate government statistics imply that the real incomes of those at the middle of the income
distribution
have increased about 50% since 1980.
The US Census Bureau estimates the money income that households receive from all sources and identifies the income level that divides the top and bottom halves of the
distribution.
In the eurozone, the
distribution
issue is especially complex, given that institutional differences between countries can give the impression of discrimination among them.
But, in order to maximize the impact of such an operation, the ECB would also have to find a way to ensure fair
distribution.
Without productivity growth, the incomes of those at the lower end of the
distribution
will likely remain flat, exacerbating inequality and, as we have been seeing lately, jeopardizing social and political stability.
With the official banking system thus constrained, it allocated the remaining credit to large enterprises and those with sufficient collateral, resulting in an uneven
distribution
of loans across regions and sectors.
There will be many multilateralisms and “mini-lateralisms,” which will vary by issue with the
distribution
of power resources.
It is plausible that the wealthy consume smaller shares of their income, and recent trends in income and wealth
distribution
certainly are troubling on many grounds.
But what is really needed is a shift in the
distribution
of income toward households.
The first is the widening of Britain’s income
distribution
between 1750 and 1850, as the gains from the British Industrial Revolution went to the urban and rural middle class, but not to the urban and rural poor.
Second, between 1750 and 1975, income
distribution
also widened globally, as some parts of the world realized gains from industrial and post-industrial technologies, while others did not.
But the subsequent and last stage brings us to the current moment, when economic policy choices have again resulted in a widening of the
distribution
of gains in the global north, ushering in a new Gilded Age.
Seen in this light, inequality is an uneven
distribution
not only of wealth, but also of liberty.
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