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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (567)	12/23/2017 4:18:25 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13775

I read C. Wright Mills' book "White Collar" at UC Berkeley. He was quite prescient.

To: elmatador who wrote (567)	12/23/2017 8:23:28 PM
From: GPS Info	Respond to of 13775

Nothing new. Well, ceteris paribus, given a choice of an old assessment versus a new assessment, I typically choose the newer assessment. I generally assume that the older assessment hasn't taken into account the latest methods of influence. When they woke up in the 2000s it had gone. I don't understand what was gone. Do you mean the US economy or the Brazilian economy or the world economy, or something else? Are you saying the elites drove the growth rate down for their own benefit? Do you think the Chinese elites are driving down its economy to hollow out its middle class? I think you said that you are one of the smartest participants on TJ's board. Would you (or anyone else) like to take a quiz to see how much smarter you are than the attendees of the World Economic Forum. Here is a video with a test in the beginning: You can play these dynamic charts at this site: gapminder.org ("Play with the data") Check the graph the "number of people by income" over the last 100 years or so, if you have time.