The Congressional Budget Office of the United States offers the following, as reported in the New York Times:
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans… The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in [...]
Market Failure: With Statistics! 12.15.07
Disaster Capitalism: Whose How-To Guide? 11.12.07
Naomi Klein, author of the now-bestselling “Shock Doctrine” wrote in the Guardian:
On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America’s oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto [...]
Cuarón & Klein’s “Shock Doctrine” 09.08.07
Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Children of Men”, and Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo”, present a short film from Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” http://www.shockdoctrine.com
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“When I finished The Shock Doctrine, I sent it to Alfonso Cuarón because I adore his films and felt that the future he created [...]
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