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Free Trade vs the World Bank

…for a rich nation and is 5% overall world wide. Produced capital accounts for only 18% world wide. 77% of wealth creation is from “intangible capital”. Intangible capital is the…

Human capital is where it’s at!

…means capital gains should be tax equal to labor if not higher. Rich countries are largely rich because of the skills of their populations and the quality of the institutions…

Is Fitzmas Over?

…prosecutors. Rich would never lie to us – would he? Maybe we’ll chalk this up to a faulty memory – so could everyone please help Rich out on this score….

A Rising Tide That Used to Lift All Boats

…available here: The Journal and the Times are exercised by reports that, over the last three decades, a new class of what the Times calls the “hyper-rich” has arisen in…

Add it Up: Bush Promises $3 Trillion More in Debt

…or commitments. Let’s compare Kerry’s pledge to repeal Bush’s tax cuts on the rich to Bush’s past budgetary promises. If Kerry is elected, and instead proposes making tax cuts for…

Kerry: Rich and Privileged; Bush: Salt of the Earth Everyman Nedra Pickler’s really earning her GOP Team Leader points with this one, spotted by the incomparable Daily Howler: PICKLER: After…

…dominance of rich countries during world trade talks in Cancun, Mexico. The G21 is demanding the complete abolition of subsidies paid by rich countries to their farmers which, they say,…

…recommends that rich countries should cut tariffs to 10 per cent in agriculture and five per cent in manufacturing while developing countries could reciprocate with tariff cuts to 15 per…