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84% of world population have incomes below US poverty line

One of the great myths of our time has been that vast numbers of people in the developing world have suddenly become “middle class”.  This myth seemed to grow out of a confusion between the phrase “middle income” and “middle class”.  Every country has people who are “middle income”.   But as we discussed in Boom, Gloom […]

Surprise! Economists suddenly wake up to reality about China

“Forget the Crimea annexation or a U.S.-Russia standoff. The biggest international threat to U.S. economic growth is the slowdown in China, say economists polled by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).” That was last week’s headline in the WSJ.  These, of course, are the same economists who have been busy telling us for years that China […]

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