Sentences with phrase «increasing concentration of wealth»

The first is the increasing vulnerability and exposure associated with increasing concentration of wealth in coastal and other disaster - prone regions.

Any public dissent becomes explosive, because it threatens the legitimacy of our current social system, which is characterized by an increasing concentration of wealth and power among just a few at the tippy - top.

The new Income Tax Act contained many special exemptions and incentives which the commission had found objectionable and removed the federal Estate Tax Act, which had been a significant obstacle to the increasing concentration of wealth.

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.

These changes in market structure to favor the few were accomplished by various means: lack of oversight leading to concentration of market power through mergers and acquisitions, outright government subsidies to industry in various forms, including explicit subsidies to the equities and housing markets (among others) by the Federal Reserve to create a trickle down «wealth effect» in those markets, changes in the tax structure which increase the concentration of wealth, etc..

Not exact matches

There's probably no clearer demonstration of how and why we're constantly hearing about increasing and massive levels of wealth concentration in this country.

Concentration at the top has increased markedly since then, driven by a rising share of wealth at the very top.

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.

They saw that the concentration of wealth, chiefly in the form of land, tended to increase at the expense of the poor.

There has been a large increase in wealth concentration at the top: the share of wealth owned by the 0.1 % richest families has increased from 7 % in 1978 to 22 % in 2012 (Source).

Whether or not anthropogenic climate change is exacerbating extreme weather events, vulnerability to extreme weather events will continue to increase owing to increasing population and concentration of wealth in vulnerable regions.

«Economic growth, including greater concentrations of people and wealth in periled areas and rising insurance penetration,» the climate panel noted, «is the most important driver of increasing losses.»

Presumably, the CO2 enriched atmosphere was also a factor and as the CO2 emissions from burning carbon laid down in the distant past increases (as it inevitably will) and the temperature sensitivity of the atmosphere to increased concentrations decreases (it's probably quite low now anyway), the biosphere will thrive while the human population stabilizes due to increased wealth and education.