And this obsession leads us to notice that the policies that allow for a vast
concentration of wealth at the top often also create barriers that prevent people overcoming poverty at the bottom.
Crude demand sure to fall with low industry growth, people getting poorer (as a result
of concentration of wealth in few hands) and increasing CNG and electric powered cars.
The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply
increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.
Our current private banking system has presided over the
greatest concentration of wealth in human history, while the vast majority of America and the world has endured stagnant wages, declining wealth, and recurring recessions.
But as more companies stay private and pursue later - stage investment, the
high concentration of wealth comes into play: Suster says that according to the Q2 2014 PitchBook US Venture Industry Data Sheet total amount of money involved in Series D rounds is groing rapidly up 24 percent in the last four years, and they're only rising.
Over the years some readers expressed frustration that we use average instead of median household income figures, given that averages can get distorted when there is a
large concentration of wealth in a given area.
Such concentration of wealth meant the likes of Morgan were «afforded... more power than any elected official save the president, and sometimes even more than the president» — as when Grover Cleveland turned to Morgan to bail out the federal treasury.
Mega-galleries such as Hauser & Wirth have benefitted disproportionately from the
growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a small sector of the global elite, giving them the resources to take on many of the functions that were previously the domain of curators, academics, and museums.
The economic aspect is particularly striking — the authors clearly saw the rise of European authoritarianism as being in part a reaction to the worldwide economic distruption of the 1920s and»30s, and hence perceived the disproportionate
concentration of wealth as a danger to democracy.
The current regime is plainly comfortable
with concentration of wealth in SOE's [state - owned enterprises] and their princeling managers but must recognize limits.
It's not that Modigliani's reputation has grown but that the value of money has changed with the increase and
concentration of wealth over the last few decades.
«We are the 99 %,» the ubiquitous political slogan coined in 2012 during the Occupy movement, references the
inequitable concentration of wealth among the top earning 1 % in the United States.
Huang and Chen are fascinated with the myth of New York as an ethnic mosaic and its reality as one of the world's most
intense concentrations of wealth and poverty, materialism and spirituality, cultural interaction and ideological strife, immigration and racism...» - Huang Yong Ping, Chen Zhen, and France Morin, exhibition brochure.
Miami has one of the highest capital assets risk profiles of any city in the world, due to the density of its population and
concentration of wealth near its coastline.
Think of all the impacts that fossil fuel powered development has had
on concentrations of wealth and power, self - sufficiency, the biosphere and our health; substituting a fossil fuel driven economy for a solar energy economy will enable us to reverse these trends.
Hopefully this white paper on California Family Offices has demonstrated the
high concentration of wealth in California, spread among many major cities including San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and more metropolitan areas nearby.
«In the long - term, if there's
such concentration of wealth in the hands of just a few, there will be no one left to buy the goods, to keep the economy running.»
Catering to
this concentration of wealth, a slew of luxurious restaurants have opened at the city's over-the-top hotels and resorts in recent years, many of them with star chef names on the awnings: Joël Robuchon, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, and Daniel Boulud have all opened properties in Singapore.
You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when
the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.
As with income, these data show a long historical decline in
the concentration of wealth from the late 1920s into the late 1970s.
The rise of stock prices in the US stock market could be an indication of economic growth and prosperity, but it could also be an indication of
the concentration of wealth of the rich and powerful.
The policy of giving money to the wealthiest sectors — these days the financial sector — turns the trickle - down economy into a euphemism for
the concentration of wealth.