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Recursion

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24. Ah, yes, the rabidly right-wing organization "OECD"

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 06:50 AM

Jun 2016

http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=66670

There's not one single metric by which Finland's median (or mean) income is higher than Mississippi's. Not by individual PPP, not by disposable per capita, not by individual nominal exchange, not by per capita nominal exchange, not by anything.

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You have a source to back that claim up? Bad Dog Jun 2016 #9

Likely the extreme neolib mises institute. Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #12

I think you're right. Bad Dog Jun 2016 #13

Sorry, sir; elleng Jun 2016 #31

Have you clicked on the link? Bad Dog Jun 2016 #33

Ah, yes, the rabidly right-wing organization "OECD" Recursion Jun 2016 #24

Your link leads to a graph, Bad Dog Jun 2016 #32

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