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Why were we all taken in by the idea that we could make ourselves collectively richer by selling each other overpriced equities and houses?
Tickling yourself is as futile as trying to make yourself richer by writing yourself a check – or selling yourself your house for twice its current market price.
As a result, new infrastructure would only mitigate the impact of scarcity on richer countries.
Ultimately, the fairer, freer, and richer eurozone that would emerge is in Germany’s interest, too.
But, as the economy becomes richer and more complex, there will be no escaping the market imperative in internal credit allocation.
As economies get richer, they become more real-estate intensive.
The total cost of closing the “pain gap” and providing all the necessary opioids would be just $145 million a year at the lowest retail prices (unfairly, opioids are often more expensive for poorer countries than richer ones).
It is true that poorer EU countries tend to outgrow richer ones, but poor regions do not necessarily outgrow rich regions or even the country average.
But as long as poorer member states grow faster than their richer counterparts, one should not be overly concerned about temporary increases in intra-national disparities.
Two centuries later, the Netherlands was 40 times richer than China, 24 times richer than India, and ten times richer than Thailand.
Now, the Netherlands is only 11 times richer than India and barely four times richer than China and Thailand.
In the long run, this is also good news for America's trading partners: there is more value to be gained by trading with a richer economy than with a poorer one.
In 1978, the top 1% of the US population was ten times richer than the rest of the country.
Globally, the slowdown in economic convergence has similar implications, as richer countries maintain their outsize influence around the world – leading to disaffection and radicalization among the poor.
It is not easy to do this when the rich get richer – enjoying their biggest spree since the Roaring Twenties – and average household income remains stagnant for the third decade running.
And yet, according to the most recent IRS data available, for individuals lucky enough to be in the top 1% of income earners, that is exactly what the existing tax system dictates; within this group, the richer the individual, the lower his or her effective tax rate.
After ruling out a number of possible explanations, they concluded that poorer households imitated the consumption patterns of richer households in their area.
Consistent with the idea that households at lower income levels were “keeping up with the Vanderbilts,” the non-rich (but not the really poor) living near high-spending wealthy consumers tended to spend much more on items that richer households usually consumed, such as jewelry, beauty and fitness, and domestic services.
The Chinese and others should, however, bear in mind that an increase in housing prices does not make a country richer.
Of course, every homeowner will feel richer if his property’s price goes up.
Therefore, any policy that increases aggregate income must be good for society, because it can make some people richer without leaving anyone worse off.
A struggle for preserving the vestiges of greatness may be a worthy goal; perhaps France, a country richer than Russia, can afford these objectives.
As in the case of other aid programs, the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars has been transferred from richer economies to a much poorer one, with negative, if unintended, consequences.
In 1989, Poland and Ukraine had approximately the same standard of living; today, Poles are three times richer.
“People with assets have gotten richer,” said May.“People without them have suffered.”
To be sure, since S&D was first introduced in 1979, many developing countries have grown richer.
But what about the impact on actual development, the likelihood that individual citizens of poor countries will live richer, healthier, more educated lives?
The pivot toward Asia does not mean that other parts of the world are no longer important; on the contrary, Europe, for example, has a much larger and richer economy than China’s.
The efforts that richer countries promised should be – and generally are – greater than the efforts of poor countries.
The richer a country is, the earlier the date at which its emissions should peak.
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