[P2P-F] Fwd: Davos WEF 2011: Wealth inequality is the "most serious challenge for the world"

Sat Sep 10 04:41:33 CEST 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:06 AM
Subject: Davos WEF 2011: Wealth inequality is the "most serious challenge
for the world"
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html
Davos
WEF 2011: Wealth inequality is the "most serious challenge for the
world" Wealth
inequality is the most serious challenge facing the world in the years
ahead, senior business figures heard at the World Economic Forum in Davos
today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#In_the_United_States

In the United States *at the end of 2001*,
*10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth*
*and the top 1% owned 38%.*
*The bottom 40% owned less than 1% of the nation's wealth.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States

Various sociological statistics suggest the severity of wealth inequality
"with the top 10% possessing 80% of all financial assets
[and] the bottom 90% holding only 20% of all financial wealth."

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
[image: Average Income by Family, distributed by income group.]

are you aware that:
>
> THE RICHEST 1 (ONE) PERCENT OF AMERICANS possess more wealth than
> THE COMBINED WEALTH OF THE BOTTOM 90 (NINETY) PERCENT.
> //
> THE NEXT RICHEST 9 (NINE) PERCENT also possess more wealth than THE
> COMBINED WEALTH OF THE BOTTOM 90 (NINETY) PERCENT
>
> http://afgen.com/feudal2.html
>

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