A Thousand Words, Vol. 1, Issue 10.

Again, we are presented a graph of the intense inequity (or iniquity) of the American capitalistic system -- an economic system based on 30 years of Republican and Alan Greenspan economic and monetary policies.  The graph, a comparison of the rise in the distribution of income to the top one percent in the United States and Sweden, can be viewed here.


Paul Krugman's article accompanying the graph can be read here. 


Related information is available here.

Quotation for Today: Lobbying for Inequality

The quotation for today opens a discussion about poverty, middle class, elites, capitalism and democracy.

Quotation for Today

The enclosed quotation is part of an article that gives us a clear look at free-market economics and its accompanying ideology, and who benefits from free-market ideology and not truly free markets.