by Henry Oliner | Jan 8, 2020 | Economics
Another gem from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The American Middle Class as Victim: excerpt: The problem for Warren (who should know better) and others like her (who often don’t) is that there is a lot more juice in the moralistic account of economic problems...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2015 | Economics
From Carpe Diem Monday Night Links Looking at household income instead of average wages, the chart above paints a much different picture of an America with rising incomes for many American households and lots of upward income mobility, using recently updated...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 25, 2015 | Economics
How Can The Middle Class Be Saved? It’s Not An Easy Job- by Robert Samuelson in Investor’s Business Daily Excerpt: History teaches us that we have less control over our economic destiny than is often assumed. At every juncture in the chronology, people,...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 19, 2015 | Economics, Social, Uncategorized
from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: Sentier Research, a firm led by former census officials, used census data to tabulate an estimate of the median household income — how much is earned by families at the exact middle of the...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2015 | Politics
from USA Today, Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes Middle-class savings like blood in the Water: When a government is desperate for cash, it goes after the middle class, because that’s where the money is. Yes, the rich are rich, but the middle class is far more...