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pampango

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8. "All three are within a few decimal places of the previous highs — which occurred in 1928..."

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 08:40 AM

Feb 2014

1928's unmatched record of of income skewed to the top 10%, 1% and .1% came after 8 years of republican regressive taxes, deregulation, weak unions, high tariffs and limited immigration.

Now we have similarly skewed incomes with regressive taxes, deregulation, weak unions, low tariffs and higher immigration. I see which policies are common to both eras of income skewed towards the super-rich.

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The middle class’s missing $1.6 trillion [View all] Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 OP

K & R defacto7 Feb 2014 #1

The numbers are stunning...nt Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #2

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"War means more!" another_liberal Feb 2014 #5

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". . . this time the revolt should be nonviolent." another_liberal Feb 2014 #7

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"All three are within a few decimal places of the previous highs — which occurred in 1928..." pampango Feb 2014 #8

Check the Pentagon - TBF Feb 2014 #10

It's a good thing we elect corporately owned democrats to counter the corporately owned republicans. Larry Ogg Feb 2014 #11

bump for the numbers..nt Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #12

"the middle class are commie!" soon we'll be seeing Latin American rhetoric slithering north MisterP Feb 2014 #13

nice article hfojvt Feb 2014 #14

A semi-retired friend has a PT job at Macy's. WorseBeforeBetter Feb 2014 #15