Thursday, December 07, 2006

Ouch

Here's an article of interest: Study Finds Wealth Inequality Is Widening Worldwide

The key finding of the report is astonishing: the wealthiest 1% of the world owns 40% of the "world's net worth".

The poorest 50% own 1.1% of the world's wealth.

Ouch.

And that was in 2000...

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