General government expenditure as % of US, British and Canadian GDP since 1960

Both the British and Canadian economies experienced major winding backs in the size of government. Only the UK, under neoliberal pawn and closet Thatcherite Tony Blair, was that undone. He is now despised by many Labour Party members including its current leader for this record.

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Data extracted on 23 Feb 2016 07:45 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.

Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper

Source: Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper – Bloomberg View.

Ratio of unemployment and single parents benefit to the New Zealand net average wage since 1970

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Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.

North West Europe, 16,000 years ago

Will there be poverty on the Starship Enterprise?

A Facebook photo by Mary Ruwart reminded me of the question I posed in previous blog posts about whether there will be poverty on the Star Trek enterprise. Those security officers in the red tunics get a really bad deal, especially if they beam down to the planet with Captain Kirk.

@Maori_Party New Zealanders aged 25 to 34 with NCEA level 4 or above qualifications by ethnicity

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Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.

How did German, Italian, French, British and American billionaires make their money?

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Source: Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver, The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database (2016).

How much food can you buy for working 1 hour in the manufacturing sector?

The Philippines since martial law

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Honest @BernieSanders – the poor are not getting poorer

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Peak coal was long ago

Today in Manila, 1986

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@BernieSanders how did Danish, Swedish, Finnish & Norwegian billionaires make their money?

OK, Nordic billionaire population sizes might be small, but plenty more billionaires make their own money in neoliberal USA than in Bernie Sanders’ Utopia

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Source: Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver, The Origins of the Superrich: The Billionaire Characteristics Database (2016).

The impact of changes in behaviour on life expectancy since 1960

The role of inheritance in top incomes

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