At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.
–Thomas Piketty
The distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists,
sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”
He says he carries a gun because "people don't like him."
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I wouldn’t use it. I didn’t pull it out. I didn’t threaten anybody. I didn’t brandish it. That’s ridiculous. … I would protect myself, but I certainly didn’t threaten anybody.
— Attorney James Pengilly, defending himself during a telephone conference with Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez against earlier accusations made by attorney Dale Hayes Jr. Pengilly, who acknowledges that he carries a weapon on him, is accused of pulling out a gun during a contentious deposition. When asked about the allegations, Penguilly told the following to a reporter from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “I have it every day, all day. I always carry a gun because I’m an attorney and people don’t like me.”
Can you have too much of a good thing?
The developed world, including ourselves, certainly appears to believe so.
Britain's vote to exit Europe, the rise of Donald Trump and the support of nationalist movements across Europe all point to an upwelling of discontent among a swathe of the population.
Here at home, the unease has manifest itself in a deeply divided Parliament that extends to open conflict not just between but within opposing parties. And, as the events of the past week have shown, much of that springs from a deep distrust of those controlling the economy; bankers, financiers and multi-national corporations Distrust in government banking industry needs urgent attention
Officially Thomas Piketty is a world leading thinker, bestselling author, professor at the prestigious
École des Hautes Etudesen Sciences Sociales and associate chair at the Paris School of Economics.
Popularly, however,Pikettyis a “rock star economist”– even,“the Beyoncé of celebrity economists”
Penned 120 years ago, Henry Lawson’s poem ‘For’ard’ describes class distinctions on a steamship. The “for’ard” section houses the “second-classers”, who are “stowed away like sheep”, while in the aft section the gentry travel in “cushioned cabins”. Women in the forward section are fed separately from the men, “just as if they couldn’t trust ’em for to eat along with us!”, but the gentlemen and ladies “always dine together, aft”. An Australian take on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-first Century’
What were we thinking? We had a boom and we did nothing with it Learning from the undedogs
Revealed: The Scots firm at the heart of $1bn theft The Herald
What were we thinking? We had a boom and we did nothing with it Learning from the undedogs
Revealed: The Scots firm at the heart of $1bn theft The Herald
Why Greece's economic tragedy is a warning for Australia
Being a tax dodger doesn’t mean you’re smart Newsweek
Australians woke up to dire warnings this week about their economic future. We need tough reforms and spending cuts, we’re told, lest Australia head down the path of Greece and end up as an economic basket case. On the ABC’s AM program on Monday, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Kate Carnell called for the abolition of Family Tax Benefit Part B, means testing of the Child Care Rebate and switching pension payments for loans against the family home. Australia is not Greece, but its economy is obese and unfit
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Swiss tax authorities say 450 Swiss linked to Panama Papers swissinfo
Data Shows Australia’s Economy is Worse Than Greece
Since ancient Greece, the Olympics and bribery have gone hand in hand
