Workers Lost Ground During Recession As Bosses Gained – Bloomberg 06-07-12

Salient to Investors: The worst recession in six decades is hurting workers while leaving bosses almost unscathed. Between 2007 and 2010, people in nonprofessional occupations without college degrees saw median earnings fall 4.6 percent versus a 1.9 percent rise for college-educated professionals or managers. BLS reports 8.1 percent of workers with a high school degree

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Too Much Faith in Markets Denies Us the Good Life – Bloomberg 06-07-12

Observations by Professor Robert Skidelsky and Lecturer Edward Skidelsky: Power relationships and the insatiability of human wants maintain our acquisitiveness. Economic growth has trumped all other objects of economic policy. Shift to a market-based philosophy of growth abandons any interest in the social outcome of growth. The Anglo-American system of the past 30

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