Income Inequality Archives - Page 3 of 6

daniel May 22, 2016May 22, 2016 217 a year over the past two decades, average lower class family makes less than the federal poverty level, average upper-class family’s spending power has dropped by $13, Income Inequality, Incredibly Shrinking Middle Class, median income of US households in 2014 was 8% lower than it was in 1999, middle class appears to be an endangered species in America’s cities, middle class shrank significantly, Middle Class Shrinks Some More, percentage of all Americans living in middle class households fell from 55% in 2000 to 41% in 2014., percentage of middle class households fell by 6%, Pew Income Study, Pew Research Center, The percentage of manufacturing jobs in the United States fell by 29% between 2000 and 2014

The Incredibly Shrinking Middle Class, Shrinks Some More

Pew reported that the middle class shrank significantly in nine out of 10 of the American cities it studied in May 11, 2016 press release. The Center’s disturbing findings are a follow up to an earlier study in which Pew’s researchers concluded: “The shrinking of the middle class at the national level, to the point where it may no longer be the economic majority in the U.S.”

Market Insanity You Missed It

daniel April 25, 2016 Gentrification and Income Inequality, Hipsters, housing costs, Income Inequality, Jed Kolko, The Upper Class Conquers the Cities, Urban Revival Might Not be for Real

Urban Revival Might Not be for Real

The most logical answers seem to be gentrification and income inequality. Gentrification is increasing housing costs in many urban areas, making them unaffordable for a lot of people. The average rent in Brooklyn was $2,723.46 a month in March 2016, according to MNS real estate.

The Death Spiral

daniel March 1, 2016 Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Dead Malls, Die Mall Die, Doomed Malls, Dying Malls, Finish Line (NYSE: FINL), Income Inequality, Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS), Macy’s (NYSE: M), Mall Closing, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG), Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG), TJX (NYSE: TSX)

Are Malls Really Doomed?

That cherished and reviled American institution known as the shopping mall is facing the greatest crisis in its history. Many

Crazy Stocks

daniel February 26, 2016 Does Rent A Center Make Money?, Income Inequality, MREIT, Rent-A-Center, Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ: RCII), Rent-A-Center is doomed, Rent-A-Center’s Dismal Earnings Report, Rent-A-Center’s Incredibly High Dividend, Rent-A-Center’s revenue growth is accelerating., Will Rent-A-Center Collapse?

Is Rent-A-Center Doomed or a Value Investment?

Income inequality is definitely increasing Rent-A-Center’s customer base, but it is not helping the company make any money. Instead, its latest earnings report from December 31, 2015, tells a tale of impending disaster.

You Missed It

daniel February 24, 2016 Crisis on the Farm, Income Inequality, Income Inequality to Get Worse, Recession in America, Recession Spreads, Recession USA, Retail Apocalypse, U.S. Farmers have Lost More than Half their Income, Where the Recession is

Is America in Recession?

Four U.S. states, Alaska, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming, are already in a recession because of the collapse in oil and gas prices, Bloomberg reported.

Long Ideas

daniel February 9, 2016 Aldi, Aldi Coming, Aldi in America, Aldi Is No Threat to Kroger, Aldi vs Dollar Stores, Cashing In on Income Inequality, Dollar General (NYSE: DG), Dollar Tree Stores (NASDAQ: DLTR), Income Inequality, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Kroger vs. Aldi., Tesco (NASDAQ: TESO), Walmart Has Cloned Aldi, Walmart Neighborhood Market, Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)

Could Aldi Kill the Dollar Stores?

Aldi is a potent force that is already changing the American grocery business. It may not threaten the big guys, but Aldi will certainly change how and where Americans shop for milk and potato chips.

Long Ideas

daniel January 27, 2016 Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), DRI, Eddie V's, Income Inequality, Middle Class Broke, Middle Class Declining, Middle Class Poor, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Restaurant Investing, The Capital Grille, The Yard House, Value Investing

Is Income Inequality Killing Darden Restaurants?

The latest crop of Darden financial numbers, those from November 30, 2015, definitely do not justify the $61.93 a share the company was trading at on January 22, 2016. Some of the numbers are so bad they even cast doubt on Darden’s whole business model.

My Thoughts

daniel January 1, 2016February 24, 2016 Alaska Permanent Fund, Alaska’s basic income experiment, Alaska’s Possible Solution to Income Inequality and Insecurity, Answer to America’s Income Inequality, Average Americans Are Getting Poorer, Basic Income, Could Alaska’s Basic Income Experiment Work Nationwide?, Guaranteed Income, Income Inequality, Income Insecurity, national basic income program, nationwide basic income scheme

Could Alaska’s Oil Payment Be the Answer to America’s Income Inequality?

If Americans are serious about alleviating poverty and income inequality, we need to take a close look at Alaska’s basic income experiment. We should ask ourselves if something like the Alaska Permanent Fund could work on a nationwide basis.

Politics

daniel November 21, 2015March 5, 2016 America’s “poorest white town, Class Warfare, failed economic policies, Income Inequality, John Maynard Keynes, The Ghost of John Maynard Keynes in Beattyville, Total Economic Collapse, totally dysfunctional economy, Why the Presidential Candidates Ignore the Poor

Why No Presidential Candidate Will Visit Beattyville

Judging by the candidates’ responses, it will take a violent upheaval of some sort on behalf of poor whites simply to attract the attention of the media and the political elite. One just hopes our leaders respond to that upheaval with compassion and common sense and not with bayonets and tanks.

Politics

daniel October 4, 2015March 5, 2016 Class Warfare, Class Warfare and Race, Class Warfare in Colorado, England’s Class Warfare, England’s Class Warfare Is America’s Future, Income Inequality, Income Inequality and the New Class Warfare, Income inequality could be the most destructive force in the United States today, New Class Warfare, Sudden Influx of the Poor, Targeting the Middle Class, The Majority of Americans Are No Longer Middle Class, the New Class Warfare

Income Inequality and the New Class Warfare

You can see the recipe for class warfare here. Most Americans can no longer afford the American Dream. The potential for social unrest and violence, particularly from those that fall through the cracks, is great. One result is open class warfare, often with ugly racial overtones.