It's been a rough decade. Care to guess when the median inflation adjusted earnings of men peaked?
U.S. Census Bureau: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010
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Try 1973. I circled it in red on the chart.
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
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6 comments:
Same song.
Different verse.
http://jazzbumpa.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-on-golden-age.html
WASF,
JzB
When Nixon decided to accommodate to the extravagant, unfunded and ill-directed spending of LBJ, Things Got Worse.
Jazzbumpa,
From your link:
The vertical line on this graph indicates an inflection point of 1973. You could perhaps move it out to the next bump, if you squint, but not much further. Irrespective of that detail, what this means, simply, is that the already wealthy have captured more of the pie since the break point.
Same song indeed!
dearieme,
Guns and butter!
What could possibly go wrong again?
I found the following on the web:
http://postimage.org/image/639rel0oh/
eye opening!
In Hell's Kitchen (NYC),
I'd like to comment on the chart you found.
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D'oh! I managed to stray way off topic. Sorry about that! I have no idea what got into me. ;)
In all seriousness, our economy feels like it is trying to revert back to the Dark Ages (albeit one with a 45 million person food stamp program).
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