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Those at the top, in such cases, are enriched at the direct expense of those at the bottom.
It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle-down economics – the quaint notion that everyone benefits from enriching those at the
top.
All of the benefits of growth have gone to the
top.
To say that they were implies three things:
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bank executives were rewarded for short-term results with large amounts of up-front cash; bank executives did not hold sufficiently large amounts of stock to align their interests with those of shareholders; and executives with more short-term pay and less stock ownership should have had the greatest incentive to take bad and excessive risks, and thus should have performed worse in the crisis.
Over the last two or three decades, technological change and increased scale have led to much greater productivity and much higher incomes for those at the
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of society’s income distribution.
It also stems from an “us” and “them” mentality that similarly permeates research at the
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Wall Street investment houses.
These gains were felt at every level of the income distribution, with the largest percentage gains going to those in the bottom tier and the smallest gains going to those at the
top.
But the long-term trends identified – a rise in capital owners’ share of income and the concentration of “primary income” (before taxes and transfers) at the very
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of the distribution in the United States and other major economies – remain unchallenged.
Given that capital ownership remains concentrated among those with high incomes, the share of income going to the very
top
of the distribution also will rise.
Add to that the modern scale effects on professional and “superstar” incomes – a result of winner-take-all global markets – and a picture emerges of fundamental forces tending to concentrate primary income at the
top.
For the
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100 firms, that share increased from 16% to 40%, on average.
The same multi-country database also confirms that market concentration has risen significantly over the past two decades, particularly among the
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100 firms.
In 2015, the
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100 firms had a combined market capitalization (the total value of a company’s outstanding shares) that was 7,000 times that of the bottom 2,000 firms.
Between 1995 and 2015, the
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100 firms increased their market capitalization fourfold, but did not even double their share of employment.
Large buffers of saving (53% of GDP) and foreign-exchange reserves ($3.3 trillion) are at the
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of the list.
But why shouldn’t America’s
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diplomat have significant influence over military matters?
Donald Trump has taken this approach to a new extreme – and has come out on
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of the Republican field.
Add to that deep research talent – five of the
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ten global computer science faculties are within the EU – and Europe’s start-up boom looks sustainable.
The fighting cost Hamas two of its
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leaders, Saeed Siyam and Nizar Rayan, and significantly weakened its military capabilities.
In an unprecedented statement, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a
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Hamas leader, said any missiles fired at Israel from Gaza would be “betrayal missiles.”
Consider the number of clubs that have qualified for the European Champions’ League
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eight slots.
The reason for this concentration at the
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is obvious: the richest clubs are now able to attract the best players in the world.
The average winning margin among the
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eight World Cup national teams has steadily decreased, from more than two goals in the 1950’s, to about 1.5 goals in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s, and only 0.88 goals in the 2002 World Cup.
The same is true of all games played at the final tournament, not only those among the
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eight national teams.
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s
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economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming, hunger and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and trade barriers.
These inflows are expected to
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US$1 trillion in the not-so-distant future.
The majority of citizens agree with President Barack Obama that tax increases for deficit reduction should fall on the
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2-3% of taxpayers, who have enjoyed the largest gains in income and wealth over the last 30 years.
So far, Obama’s Republican opponents are adamant that the cuts be extended for all taxpayers, arguing that increases in
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rates would discourage job creation.
Recent research finds no link between tax cuts for
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taxpayers and job creation.
But how should additional revenues be raised from
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taxpayers to achieve these two goals?
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