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8.28.2006 

Comparative Economics

I found this article fascinating.

The chart below even more so:



Essentially, the chart compares the percent of median income for persons in the top decile and lower decile of income for various European countries and the United States. It appears we have the same percentile of poor and twice the rich. A very interesting outcome vis a vis more socialist countries. Read the whole article.