Showing posts with label middle class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label middle class. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2021

7/5/21: Record Wealth in the Post-Covid World... for the select few

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 Demolishing American middle class... one year at a time
Thursday, August 1, 2019

1/8/19: Wages vs GDP growth: when economic growth stops benefiting workers

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I have posted earlier some data on the gap between real GDP and real disposable income per capita in the U.S. (see here:  https://trueecon...

1/8/19: Debasement of Real Disposable Income share of GDP: Historical Trends

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I have been crunching some data recently on the historical gap between real GDP growth and wages/income of households. Some of this work w...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

23/4/19: Income per Capita and Middle Class

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New research reported by the Deutsche Bank Research shows that, on average, there is a positive (albeit non-linear) relationship between t...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

9/9/18: Populism, Middle Class and Asset Bubbles

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The range of total returns (unadjusted for differential FX rates) for some key assets categories since 2009 via Goldman Sachs Research: ...
Monday, December 19, 2016

19/12/16: Income Polarization in the U.S.: Building Blocks of Trumplitics

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Having just reviewed some fresh evidence on the trends and underlying drivers of declining wage growth rates in the U.S. post-Global Finan...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

8/12/16: Democratic Party: The Eraser of Middle Class Vote?

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More of the same didn't cut it for the American middle class this November, ... and so the Obama voters went to the Republicans, as Hi...
Monday, January 18, 2016

18/1/16: Forget Conventional Geopolitics, Demographics is the New Global Conflict Ground Zero

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While analysts are worried about geopolitical tensions relating to *hot*, *cold* and *frozen* conflicts of traditional nature, the real Gl...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

8/13/2013: Sunday Times, August 11: Wither Middle Ireland

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from August 11, 2013. Recent data from Irish retailers, aggregate services indi...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

2/4/2012: Impact of the middle class on economic, social and political institutions

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A fascinatingly interesting study of the effects the middle class has on economic, social and political institutions. The World Bank Poli...