Sentences with phrase «wealth in a few hands»

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.

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

They concentrate wealth in a few hands, and stomp everyone else into the ground.]-RRB-.

Not exact matches

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But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

It outlines a number of areas for Christians to consider and advises people to vote for a party that is interested in «reversing the accumulation of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands, whether those of the state, corporations or individuals».

I was just reading the Sermon on the Mount: «Blessed are the conservatives who keep wealth in the hands of the few... Blessed are those who want to move towards the way things were in the good old days... Blessed are those who repeal programs for the poor and give to the rich.»

Nationally, we are concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The market's tendency to concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands should be countered by redistributive policies.

The concentration of wealth puts control of the not - really - free market in the hands of a relatively few families.

It is the inevitable social byproduct of the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.

It contributes to the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

Too much wealth landed in the hands of too few people.

But when wealth is concentrated in a few hands, it gives these hands the power to shape markets to their own advantage.

We can, however, appreciate the passion for justice to ordinary people and opposition to concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.

The objection is that it transfers wealth from the public to the banks and it concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.

It also concentrates power as well as wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The prophets picked up on this ideal, protesting the concentration of wealth and power in a few hands.

The world's wealth is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and those to whom we turn for advice in these matters tell us it is none of their business.

Deforestation, war, rampant exploitation of resources, and the serve concentration of the worlds wealth in the hands of a few corporations.

As we have noted, the current distributional pattern characterized by gross concentration of land in the hands of the few is the basis for the concentration of both wealth and political power.

Yet, on the other hand, neither have Mr. McGurn and Wall Street offered, or allowed, pace Milton Friedman, any creative ways or thinking to address the glaring and cruel gap in wealth between the few and the many throughout the world.

You're buying into the lie, because there are and have been people in power who want us to continue to decimate our economy and our nation, pouring all of our wealth into the hands of a few weapons manufacturers and oil corporations.

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

In addition to concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the EartIn addition to concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the Eartin fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the Earth.

They demand nothing short of upper class / caste domination in our society to end and strive for a new order wherein the wealth of nations is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few, but wherein people actively participate in the development and well - being of the nation.

The empirical and historical fact is that the market favors the rich over the poor and tends to concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The war hastened the process of concentrating the wealth of this country in the hands of the few; it is a process which has been going on at accelerated pace ever since.

Is the rising power and capital accumulation of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) together with advances in block chains and artificial intelligence leading to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, obsolescence of manual labour and even the destruction of capitalism, as Karl Marx believed in the 19th century?

A provocative 2013 book written by French economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty - first Century, condemns the politics of austerity and unbridled capitalism that concentrate wealth in the hands of a few and create persistent inequalities.

According to her website, Teachout believes in «economic and political equality» and is against «concentration of wealth and control in the hands of the few.»

«The evils of racism, the evils of poverty, the inexcusable reality that our educational system fails our children, the concentration of wealth in the hands of too few, and the experience of deprivation in the lives of too many,» he said, alluding to the outbursts of racial violence following the deaths of black men at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore.

Requiem for the American Dream Directed and written by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Our conclusion is that the problem is not merely privatization of our public schools, it is concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few billionaires.

Never mind staggering levels of unemployment in the inner cities or a system in which more and more of the nation's wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands; just place the blame on individuals whose characters are deficient.

Seven years later oil was discovered, transforming the impoverished country's economy, but most of the wealth stayed in the hands of a few, leading to resentment and unrest.

(and the gain is not tax free) The real cause of the increase in debt - to - income ratio is the following; 1) High taxation leaving fewer dollars in the hands of the public 2) Record low interest rates and relaxed lending criteria 3) The wealth affect of increasing Real Estate prices 4) ridiculous credit card interest rates 5) lack of real wage growth

«The financial regime of the past century has not only led to a massive accumulation of capital in a few private hands and created a powerful oligarchy that operates a policy of radical wealth defense through formally democratic means.

The way the global economy is organized and managed, wealth is consolidated in the hands of the few fortunate winners.

Never in human history has so much wealth been concentrated in the hands of so few people.

Never before has so much wealth been concentrated in the hands of so few people.

This path logically leads to further dwindling resources which will in turn concentrate the country's natural resources and therefore much of its wealth in the hands of a few.

A friend of mine is concerned that the existence today of excessive executive compensation is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power in the hands of a few.

That's an incredible amount of wealth in the hands of very, very few.