How Capitalism Deals with Inequality

Ted Rall's Rallblog 2014-02-12

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2-12-14

President Obama and the Democrats have finally decided, five years after his election, to begin talking about the issue of income inequality, which has been increasing since the early 1970s. But their rhetoric makes it sound like inequality is a weird byproduct of capitalism when, in fact, it is a key feature of an economic […]

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Authors:

Ted Rall

Date tagged:

02/12/2014, 12:20

Date published:

02/12/2014, 06:41