Great before it was better for a certain class of people i. E. The bottom 99 percent it wasnt as great for the top one percent back then this is not some back of the napkin approximation according to a groundbreaking new working paper by carcassi price Catherine Edwards of the Rand Corporation have the more equitable income distributions of the 3 decades following world war 2945 through 1974 really held steady the aggregate annual income of americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been 2. 00 trillion dollars higher in the year 2018 alone this is an amount equal to nearly 12 percent of g. D. P. Enough to more than double Median Income enough to pay every single american in the bottom 9. 00 deciles an additional 1144. 00 a month every month every single year see the jamison of the scam perpetrated by wall street and the likes of Warren Buffett and the people over a black rock and all the private equity firms and j. P. Morgan and jamie diamond and all the global banks is tha
A look at back at the biggest stories in the last 7 days but 1st stay with us for the kaiser report. Oh hi im max foster this is the kaiser report you know there seems to be a bit of panic in the air. Play lets check in with Stacy Herbert i dont more max as you know weve had 4 years of a lot of political turmoil and starting to spill out into the streets everywhere you look not only in the United States but around the world and Rand Corporation might have an explanation for this now remember Rand Corporation if youre if you were around in the seventys they were part of the pentagon papers right it was identical ellsberg released the hundreds of pages of research they had done on the debacle that was the vietnam war and now they have basically done some research on the debacle that is fed policy of creating can tell you an heiress since 1971 so the top one percent of americans have taken 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90 percent and thats made the us less secure this is according t
Good evening and welcome, both newcomers and repeat offenders, if you look around here, you notice the great many ponderous and intangible books out there in the world. That being the case, its always refreshing to find whose impact in the portion to the Tipping Point is one of those books, from time to time, usually its quite unexpected, work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain, one strong spray with a passages to clean up, suddenly we can finally grasp things around us that weve always been looking at, we drop the enter gp and more sharply, it can be rather intoxicating, once again this is that kind of book. One of the delights i find of the Tipping Point is that malcolm asked the kind of question that a child might ask, the kind of question that is on the tip of her brain like the name on the tip of the tongue. Often we find it hard to focus on, not despite a bit but because of it. In the question he asks to hear is that one once weve heard asked, why didnt anybody thi
Cross talk in the Foreign Policy blog im joined by my guest brian becker in washington hes the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily news show on radio sputnik in minneapolis we have tony lazaro he is director of big tent republicans pac and in dayton we cross the hes a syndicated cartoonist and Opinion Column this are democrats like those in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you 1st in the swamp you know watching this ridiculous impeachment hoax being played out which almost no one is watching here were all told about the differences you know that separate the republicans and the democrats conservatives and its very very tribal the media makes a ton of money off of well i so i would suppose i would hope for them because not many people are watching it not many people are interested in it but theres theres a huge huge failure in the. Media in the Political Class talking about what is really
In the Foreign Policy blog im joined by my guest brian becker in washington hes the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily news show on radio sputnik in minneapolis we have tony was our oh he is director of big tent republicans pac and in dayton we cross lee hes a syndicated cartoonist and Opinion Column this are democrats liberals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you 1st in the swamp you know watching this ridiculous impeachment hoax being played out which almost no one is watching here were all told about the differences you know that separate the republicans and the democrats conservatives and its very very tribal the media makes a ton of money off of well i so i would suppose i would hope for them because not many people are watching it not many people are interested in it but theres theres as he. Huge huge failure in the media and the Political Class talking about what is really bip