“Services generate about 70% of rich-world GDP” says a recent Economist article, which highlighted the drafting of a new regional trade agreement between Canada and Europe. While this trade treaty, called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), includes many of your boring, old-school tariff and farming talk, it more importantly looks to liberalize the […]
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Yet Another Chart on Income Inequality
Not to compete with recent information from Mother Jones, Huffington Post, Reuters, the NY Times, and many others, I too pulled some US census data to look at how incomes have changed over the last 45 years. It was pretty easy to find and the census bureau had already broken the population into easily comparable segments (quintiles). […]
