The Great Divergence

Alan Greenspan: Don't Blame Capitalism For All This Income Inequality

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 03.27.2012

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Say what you will about income inequality to ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, just don't blame the free market. In an op-ed for the Fin...

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WATCH: Why The West Is Losing Out To The Rest

Posted 01.06.2012

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Historian Niall Ferguson discussed "the six killer apps" of prosperity in his recent TED talk. These "apps" refer to certain ideas--competition, sc...

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U.S. Income Inequality Has SURPASSED Guyana And Nicaragua

Slate Magazine | Timothy Noah | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the ...

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