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- Digital work and exploitation https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/digital-work-and-exploitation/ 12 comments
- Saving European capital: it’s an existential challenge https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/saving-european-capital-its-an-existential-challenge/ 5 comments economics
- The rise in wages as being the cause of the rise in prices is finally debunked by recent and massive IMF study. IMF says: "Wage-price spirals, at least defined as a sustained acceleration of prices and wages, are hard to find in the recent historical record." https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/the-wage-price-spiral-refuted/ 53 comments economy
- An Economic Forecast for 2021. Why Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, and Robert Reich were wrong in predicting the economy would snap back. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/01/02/forecast-for-2021/ 5 comments economy
- The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/the-top-1-of-households-own-43-of-global-wealth-10-owns-81-while-the-bottom-50-have-just-1/ 197 comments economy
- The top 400 income holders (billionaires) pay an effective tax rate of 23%. While it is 25-30% for the working and middle classes. America’s tax system is now technically regressive. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/tax-justice-now/ 47 comments economy
- Despite all the optimistic talk by Pres. Trump about the state of the US economy, the latest data on economic activity and industrial production suggest that America is joining Europe and Japan in a sharp slowdown as we enter the second half of 2019 https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/05/26/global-slump-the-trade-and-technology-trigger/ 7 comments economy
- The gini coefficient (the basic measure of inequality) for incomes is now at its highest ever in the US https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/inequality-and-risk-both-rising/ 7 comments economy
- The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an outright recession is getting much higher. IMF economists cut their outlook for global growth to the lowest since the global financial crisis of 2009 https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/a-delicate-moment/ 16 comments economy
- The top 1% own 48% of all global personal wealth; 10% own 85% https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/the-top-1-own-48-of-all-global-personal-wealth-10-own-85/ 138 comments economy