Friday, April 20, 2012

Income inequality

  • As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote in 1904, "taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • High CEO pay is like a zombie that will not die. And it's hard to understand why, considering most leadership advice and organizational theory would stop excessive pay packages dead in their tracks.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Now he has published a new book, Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis.
  • (The Fiscal Times)
  • Then, Yakovenko plots the percentage of total income lying in that tail on through the years. He finds that the periods of greatest inequality are also periods of bursting investment bubbles.
  • (sciencecodex.com)
  • The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol. 59, June 2005, pp. 214-20. Lynch, J. W. et al. Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions.
  • (Psych Centra)
  • President Obama may talk a big game about economic fairness, but his record on the issue doesnt quite match up.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Every now and then just to see how the other one percent lives, I read the editorial page(s) of the Wall Street Journal.   The Journal is the last word in financial journalism, except for the Editorial page.  That's pure Rupert Murdoch.
  • (newjerseyhills.com)

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