Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture has an intriguing graphic posted today. It’s a historical comparison of the top 1% of income owners in major countries.
It comes from the Paris School of Economics, which is also building an online database to allow you to crunch the numbers some more. Unfortunately, it’s not entirely built out yet, although you can do a little playing on it.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins