How Our 1% Compares

How Our 1% Compares August 25, 2012

Posted by tkcollier in Economy & Business, Geopolitics.
Tags: 1%, China, Economy & Business, United States
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It’s right out of 1880s America:

In China, less than 1% of households control more than 70% of private financial wealth.

In the US today, we’re talking somewhere between 40 and 45 percent.

Globally, says, John Bussey in the WSJ, the number is “nearly 40%,” so America’s not much off the norm.

For China to truly advance and become a genuine competitive threat, the political system has to decide to divorce wealth from political power. Otherwise we’re looking at decay and decline and a very short “Chinese century.”

US hit that moment and launched itself into a multi-decade progressive era that cleaned up a lot of things but government most of all.

As I have said many times, the world needs a small army of Teddy Roosevelts right now – but China most of all.

via Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Globlogization – Blog – China’s looming populist problem.

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