Joseph E. Stieglitz on growing inequality in the US - read : "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" - http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105.
"Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret."
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Not a pleasant, but an essential analysis. America more and more resembles a whitewashed tomb ...
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