The Secrets of the Wealthy
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go back to the 1970s soviet country, and return to our times with then-popular maxim: “Down you lie or up you stand, either way you’ll earn a grand”? Every citizen in our country would have full-time employment and a fixed salary regardless of the results …
Student: When you think about different countries and progressive and regressive taxes, what are your ideas about countries that have a significantly lower tax rate for capital gains? In other words, people like Steve Jobs who have amazing ideas, how does that play into the unfairness of maybe taxing someone too much if they deserve …
There has been a lot said and a lot written about income inequality – about how unfair it is that a few people are very rich and the rest of us aren’t; that the income gap between the wealthy and even the middle-class, let alone the poor, is so large. There’s only one problem with …
America! We are the richest country on earth, and indeed the richest civilization that has ever existed. We put a man on the moon! We invented the internet, the assembly line, and the airplane. More billionaires live here than anywhere else on earth. And we are widely acknowledged as being the most powerful single nation …
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: For a long time I was a fan of universal basic income. And the logic I had was that I always hear politicians talking about, ‘Let’s create jobs for people. That’s what we need is jobs, more jobs,’ as if that’s what’s going to solve the economic problem. So the government is supposed …
I’m gonna begin with a scary question are we headed toward a future without jobs the remarkable progress that we’re seeing in technologies like self-driving cars has led to an explosion of interest in this question but because it’s something that’s been asked so many times in the past maybe what we should really be …
this is the airfield for private jets at düsseldorf Airport entrepreneur Christoph gröna is one of Germany’s super-rich people who have a lot of say in this country but a rarely heard in public corner is worth millions and private assets and company shares all of it and self-made [Music] let’s say you have 250 …
This is Richard Wolff with another EconoMinute. In recent weeks the government has released statistics indicating that Americans’ household incomes went up between 2014 and 2015. And indeed they did. It’s interesting that that happened. It’s important. The gain was substantial. Median income, by the way, simply a measure that gives you a rough idea …
This is Milton Friedman. The Nobel Prize winning libertarian economist… …who adamantly opposed big government. The government is too big. It’s becoming our master instead of our servant. We’ve got to redact against it and cut it down to size. So it may come as a surprise… …to learn that Milton Friedman… …proposed a government …
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