Monday, 15 December 2014 17:26

Is Income Inequality the Central Economic Problem?

Is Income Inequality the Central Economic Problem?

In a blog entry that is well worth reading entitled "What Choice Do We Have?", Charles Hugh Smith discusses the extreme and ever-increasing income inequality that characterizes economic life in the modern world (amongst other closely related issues):

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