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Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:06 AM<br>Subject: Davos WEF 2011: Wealth inequality is the "most serious challenge for the world"<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html</a></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.16em;"><font size="4">Davos WEF 2011: Wealth inequality is the "most serious challenge for the world"</font></h1>
<h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="2">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.</font></h2>
<div style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/8283310/Davos-WEF-2011-Wealth-inequality-is-the-most-serious-challenge-for-the-world.html</a></div>
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</font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><span style="line-height: 19px;"></span><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#In_the_United_States" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#In_the_United_States</a></span><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br>
</span></font><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">In the United States <i><u>at the end of 2001</u></i>,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth</b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>and the top 1% owned 38%.</b></span></div><div>
<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>The <u>bottom 40% owned less than 1%</u> of the nation's wealth.</b></span></div>
<div></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States</a><br>
</span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Various sociological statistics suggest the severity of wealth inequality�</span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">"with the top 10% possessing 80% of all financial assets�</span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">[and] the bottom 90% holding only 20% of all financial wealth."</span><br>
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<font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph" target="_blank">http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph</a></span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><img src="http://assets.motherjones.com/politics/2011/inequality-page25_actualdistribwithlegend.png" alt="Average Income by Family, distributed by income group."></span></font></div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>are you aware that:</div>
<div><br></div><div>THE RICHEST 1 (ONE) PERCENT OF AMERICANS possess more wealth than</div><div>THE COMBINED WEALTH OF THE BOTTOM 90 (NINETY) PERCENT.</div><div>//</div><div>THE NEXT RICHEST 9 (NINE) PERCENT also possess more wealth than THE COMBINED WEALTH OF THE BOTTOM 90 (NINETY) PERCENT</div>
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