"The political class and its allies said that they could make all things better if they created more debt, spent more money, printed trillions in phony money, made credit as cheap as possible, and rescued failing institutions."
Nu har de gått 5 år sedan krashen 2008. Och medelklassen minskar sitt välstånd sakta med säkert.
"As Money News (source) summarizes: Only 56% of Americans laid off from January 2009-December 2011 had found jobs by the start of this year, the Labor Department said Friday. More than half of them took jobs with lower pay. One-third took pay cuts of 20% or more.”
Medianinskomsten för medelklassen har från 2000 till 2010 minskat. Det är första gången efter andra världskrigen som detta har hänt (under en tio års period).
"The bleak summary: Since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some — but by no means all — of its characteristic faith in the future.”
Sen att inkomsten har fallit mer under "recovery" perioden än under "recessions" perioden visar också att allt inte står rätt till.
"Meanwhile, Sentier Research, headed by former U.S. Census Officials, has come out with its own awful report of living standards. The Washington Post (source) summarizes: Median income is 7.2% below its December 2007 level and 8.1% below where it stood in January 2000, when it was $55,470, according to the report.”
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