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Excellent article.

Measured increasing composite wealth dynamics vs. real increasing individual cost factors of the the majority of citizens is exemplifying what trend?

Just as an indicator of trends occurring,although a bit off subject, with commentary from way-out in left field: I've noticed in a number of real estate markets that Berkshire Hathaway has gobbled up Prudential's real estate holdings. Didn't Prudential contribute quite a bit to the initial 1990's initial banking scandals, and endless churning of secondary thru adinfinitum backup questionable individual and group note-holders? And what ever happened to AIG, seems like those good ole boys are looking pretty rosy cheeked again. Ok, so MERS exposures supposedly has gotten rid of a bunch of the bad boys. So, now BH is carefully prodding markets, and pricing is gradually getting pushed by planned pricing dynamics, only accessible to BH(???), to escalate BH's holdings to profit from the initial rape way back in those durn days of Prudential etal. Seems to me just the names of the corporate entities have changed.

The game since the 80's is definitely to push yahoos into a manipulated market failure, and swoop back down and profit from the spoils. That type of repetition is not a free-market economy. It's just the result of certain individuals and corporate entities having early and immediate access to economic trend data, especially individual yahoo financial data by demographic parameters, and then utilizing that data efficiently. Yahoos of the probably 90-or- so- percent constituency across the world have to keep their eyes, ears open, watch their backs and keep their mouths shut. Emotional demonstrations won't accomplish much other than creating more debris to muck through on a daily basis, and probably only for some yahoos. The real folks that count don't even have to look at the mess, let alone clean it up.

Effective policies need to change to affect the majority of citizens to have a balanced reasonable day-to-day living wage. There are quite a few citizens functioning one way or another outside of legal societal institutions. If that type of alternative continues to be the only alternative for the majority to survive, then there will be more fracturing of economies, affecting societies. It may not be all that bad. There may not be escalation of just a caving-in of communities. (Which we are all watching in the Israeli-Palestinian scenario.) The caving-in of communities in the US have allowed certain areas of rebirth, and economic opportunities for some of the younger citizens, at least in the US. Europeans don't have anywhere else to go, and the US sure ain't got gold paved streets anymore. You have to be able to afford Dubai now. And who goes, or should I write, who flees into Dubai?

With the escalating shaky ground for the 90% of yahoos communities, are there just going to be small gated pockets accessible only through guarded and walled toll-ways while a majority of beggars attack the passing caravans? This little verbal picture doesn't sound much different than the present larger scenario of the larger conflict that is still so prevalent in the Mideast. Is there really any real conflict in the Mid-East that anyone really needs to concern themselves?

Here's a link to a neat little article. Can you relate to it? http://www.businessinsider.com/mind-blowing-facts-about-dubai-2014-7?op=1

Save up for your next trip to Dubai, and who cares about any yahoos anywhere, just ignore the riff-raff. Just shoo them away, they're non consequential ants that just deserve to get stepped on.



To wrap up this little digression, money is a sign of good-will and trust. Certain principles have to be publicly evident to the many in the society. Presently, just how much goodwill does a dollar represent anymore? I'd say it's pretty eroded on all levels, especially outside of the US.

Really, how many American and any others can afford Dubai? If you are an ant from the Phillipines, or a "XXX" ant, sure you can labor there and maybe beat the heat for a short time. Ants from the US just aren't in that market, they're still tied up on one level or another in the good Ole USA.

(Oh, and I just had to mention that the little scapegoat scenario affecting that Republican governor and spouse in Virginia was just a penny tossed outside of the proverbial political ring. Doesn't count for much other than another little tidbit of media digression to pacify the mass viewing audience, and keep the focus from the real issues. What effective policy programs have survived? Just certain targeted political cronyism payoffs? How affordable is the ACA if you are attempting survival at $7.50 per hour, or even up to $15.00 per hour, and if you are very lucky even able to be scheduled to work 40 hours per week?)

If you are making $350,000 a week like some of the little media tv stars, then you fit in with the only economy that counts, and you might even get invited to Dubai for an up and coming party (especially, of you put out for whoever really counts in the plays for the greater good.) If you are scraping by at $7.50 an hour, then you know that you are really just an ant, and are lucky you're not already squashed, and not even buried, and not even remembered yesterday.

What's in store for the future for the next round of 18 year-olds entering high school in September 2014? I wonder if Piketty's book and a few other books are on the must read list this year.

