The Core

Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on February 22, 2017, 02:00:53 PM

Title: History: its message is as unpalatable as it is clear
Post by: rcjordan on February 22, 2017, 02:00:53 PM

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By now the aftershocks of the 20th century’s great wars have faded. Top tax rates and union membership are down, communism is defunct, and globalization, however reviled, is (still) in full swing. The four levelling forces will not return any time soon

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheidel-great-leveler-inequality-violence/517164/

Small bandage: Basic income

Title: Re: History: its message is as unpalatable as it is clear
Post by: rcjordan on February 22, 2017, 03:18:15 PM

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data capturing the woes of the once well-heeled South American nation

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/22/14688194/venezuela-crisis-study-food-shortage

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Another one to watch: Puerto Rico

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-see-painful-budget-measures-warns-federal-control-board-n724076