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by Mark Deen at Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-24/chile-mexico-u-s-have-highest-inequality-rates-oecd-says
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Chile, Mexico and the U.S. are the developed countries with the highest rates of inequality, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a report.
The OECD uses the Gini coefficient, a measure of household income to measure wealth distribution. Its value is zero in a country where everybody has the same income and 1 in a country where one person has all the income.
Chile has a Gini coefficients of 0.47, just ahead of Mexico at 0.46. The U.S. reading is 0.39. That compares to readings of 0.24 for Iceland, where inequality is the lowest, and 0.25 in Norway and Denmark, which rank second and third. Among Group of Seven countries, Germany and France have the lowest ratios, with readings of 0.29.
Across the developed world, the level of inequality remains near its highest since the 1980s, according to the Paris-based institution.
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whathehell
(29,067 posts)doc03
(35,338 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)while now they have at least some equity in them. More of us own outright, a very large difference from the 20s. We're a bit richer in that one respect. Other than that, inequality has now topped 1929 levels and is continuing to rise. This is clearly unsustainable.
Another crash is inevitable since nothing was done after 2008 to prevent it.
doc03
(35,338 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)I'm afraid we'll have to see which way the wind's blowing the day this one comes up.