Zanimive povezave 07/23/2007

| 23. julij 2007 | Razno | Jure

Welcome to Richistan, USA | World | The Observer Annotated

America’s super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring Twenties. As the rest of the country struggles to get by, a huge bubble of multi-millionaires lives almost in a parallel world. The rich now live in their own world of private education, private health care and gated mansions. They have their own schools and their own banks. They even travel apart - creating a booming industry of private jets and yachts. Their world now has a name, thanks to a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank which has dubbed it ‘Richistan’.

OECD Health Data: specialists outnumber GPs in most OECD countries Annotated

The medical profession is a growth industry: OECD Health Data 2007 shows that the number of doctors in OECD countries has increased by 35% over the past fifteen years to 2.8 million.

Economist’s View: Paul Krugman: The French Connections Annotated

What happened to America’s Internet lead? Bad policy. Specifically, the
United States … forgot — or was persuaded by special interests to ignore —
…that sometimes you can’t have effective market competition without effective
regulation.