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While after-tax wage rates soared for more than a century, wealth and the income it brought grew just as fast.
But there would also be a positive effect on saving and thus on wealth next year and beyond.
In the long run, wealth could tend to increase in the same proportion as after-tax wages.
But a tax cut could instead contract the welfare state – social assistance and social insurance, which constitute social wealth.
In that case, the tax cut, while gradually increasing private wealth, would decrease social wealth.
Households have cut their debt and rebuilt their balance sheets, but the large loss in household wealth, weak growth in wages and income, the concentration of most income gains at the top, and a decline in labor’s share of national income to record lows continue to constrain consumption.
Over the past ten years of economic transformation, unimaginable wealth has unaccountably disappeared from banks and companies; billions in taxes go unpaid.
So reform requires redistribution of wealth and incomes.
One easily gets the sense, when trying to take seriously what little is known about the Trump platform, of a country turning in on itself, walling itself off, and ultimately impoverishing itself by chasing away the Chinese, Muslims, Mexicans, and others who have contributed to the vast melting pot that the most globalized country on the planet has alchemized, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, into prodigious wealth.
Putin’s defiant foreign policy is a response – mediated by an authoritarian political tradition, the reactionary tenets of Orthodox Christianity, and pride in Russia’s vast geography and natural wealth – to the humiliating loss of an empire.
Putting Public Health at the Center of the Struggle against PovertyCAMBRIDGE: One great challenge facing humanity is reducing the huge gaps in income and wealth between the world’s haves and have nots.
At a time when global science is more dynamic than ever; when the richest countries are experiencing a boom in wealth unrivaled in history (including around $8 trillion in stock market gains in the United States in the past four years!), the world yearns for more effective approaches to the struggle against poverty.
Second, political paranoia is rising on the German right: everybody supposedly just wants Germany’s money; our Anglo-Saxon partners' real aim is to weaken us; and the financial markets will not rest until Germany has invested all of its wealth and has thus endangered its economic success.
But only those with income and wealth can provide meaningful support.
Finally, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks or sovereign wealth funds could take advantage of the ECB's bond-purchase program to sell increasing proportions of their German, French, or Italian debt and reinvest the proceeds in higher-yielding US Treasury securities.
Many countries have spent decades diversifying their wealth away from dollars, for both financial and geopolitical reasons.
With the US increasingly prone to using its currency as an instrument of diplomacy, even of warfare – a process known in Washington as “weaponizing the dollar" – China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, for example, may well be reluctant to shift even more of their wealth into US Treasury bonds.
Most of its people are politically impotent and poor in terms of both wealth and prospects.
The new finance minister, Lou Jiwei, comes to the ministry from the China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign wealth fund, where he dealt with global capital markets on a daily basis.
Although wealth has been growing constantly – GDP has more than doubled in the last 50 years – the share of wages in the total has diminished by 10%, even while millions of the rich have become much richer.
Past economic development, together with advances in economic thinking, have provided us with a wealth of insight into what works and what doesn’t.
Saudi Arabia has been bankrolling Islamist terrorism since the oil-price boom of the 1970s dramatically boosted the country’s wealth.
There have been boom times for the very wealthy, such as the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century, when 2% of American households owned more than a third of the country’s wealth, or indeed our own time, when the top 1% owns almost half the wealth.
In recent decades, wealth and income have become more concentrated at the top – the so-called 1% – while real incomes and standards of living for the poor and middle class in many developed countries have stagnated or declined.
The flaw in the politics of redistribution is that it emphasizes shifting wealth rather than creating it.
In some countries, sales of public assets and the levying of one-off wealth taxes would also be helpful.
That in itself will not lead to a more balanced distribution of wealth or income, and it may not generate enough employment.
Though now better off than they have ever been in material terms, the Chinese people under the current regime are denied any real opportunity to retain and refine their own dignity beyond the quest for wealth and luxury goods.
But greater wealth for the rich does not necessarily produce much extra spending.
The debate that follows will largely determine whether the US shifts toward a strong, inclusive, and sustainable pattern of growth and employment, and how the burden of moving to such a path will be shared by Americans of various ages, educational levels, incomes, and wealth.
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