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Data Point – Richest Countries in the World Per Capita

by Skip / 16 June 2023 16 June 2023

Mapped: Which Are the World’s Richest Countries? Measuring GDP per capita is a common measure of the economic wealth on a per person basis. This article sorts countries according to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections on GDP per capita for 2023. Currently this metric is at $13,920 globally in 2023, up from $13,400 in 2022 and $11,160 in 2020, all nominal …

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Screw The Poor: Proof that Democrats Are The Party of The Rich

by Skip / 21 May 2023 20 May 2023

For decades, the Democrats called themselves the “Party for the Poor,” the “Party of the common folks,” and the “Party of the Working People.” The last was meant to be the blue-collar workers in the fields, mines, and factories. Those who toiled but not in the middle to C-level offices.

So Now We Have Bruce Currie’s Answer to My Question: Whose Money Is It FIRST?

by Skip / 13 February 2023 13 February 2023

Before he got banned for turning into a troll, Bruce Currie (a Bernie-Bro) used to be part of the ‘Grok commenters. I gave him credit for constantly standing up for his Progressive replies but it was clear that he wasn’t going to go that “last step” and answer one of my principle questions when confronting …

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Data Point: Amount of Assets to be Wealthy in the US?

by Skip / 11 July 2022 11 July 2022

Interesting infographic and table, courtesy of Visual Capitalist. We heared (or more correctly, heard a lot during the Occupy Wall Street movement – seems like eons ago) all about the vaunted (and hated) “1%”. Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders is still going after them – even as he is now one of them with an estimated …

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The Danger of Knowledge

by NITZAKHON / 22 March 2022 23 March 2022

Some years ago, as an intellectual exercise, some friends and I were talking about what we thought was the single biggest advance in human history.

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Data Point – What IS it about America That Allows It to Create The Wealthies Among Us?

by Skip / 3 October 2021 1 March 2023

Featured Image Credit: BingDigital.com This is a bit out of date (published 9/28 and Elon is now worth over $200 billion), the question’s answer is almost obvious – but my humble opinion is after this infographic.

Notable Quote – Have Progressives already beat the Free Market into submission? Have we moved into Fascism controlled markets?

by Skip / 1 October 2021 1 October 2021

Reformatted, emphasis mine: In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an enterprise that operations be run in such a way that the needs of the consumer are satisfied in the best and least expensive way; it is much more important that one has “good relations” with the …

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Percent Shares of US Households by Total Money Income

Data Point: So where has the Middle Class gone? Oh, it got richer!

by Skip / 20 March 2021 20 March 2021

All we keep hearing on the Left is that the Middle Class has been taking it on the chops. Well, guess who has been doing that lately? Yes, the Left. Kill off thousands of union jobs, President Asterisk did by killing off the XL Pipeline. And not just THOSE jobs building and running it but …

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Notable Quote – Slavery Laws finally met the Law of Economics

by Skip / 21 February 2021 21 February 2021

Of course, with many employers, each attempting to maximize wealth, competition for workers would soon force the wage up to a level at which it equalled the actual value of the worker’s labor services to the firm.

Lockdowns Are Crushing the Little Guy – Democrats Are Crushing the Little Guy

by Percy Blakeney / 22 December 2020 22 December 2020

Leftists obsess about income inequality. But no act has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the lockdowns going on right now. So remove your cranium from your rectum.