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Wall Street Riches-Middle Class Poverty
What economic recovery? The recession is over? The gap between the middle class and the top rich 1 percent that are hoarding wealth is widening and with that comes revolutionary times. When the upper classes and banks are doing very well as Saunders points out, and the 95 percent of the county ...
What Wall Street Wants, Wall Street Gets
balloon-juice.com — This is awesome : Insurance brokers and benefits consultants say their small business clients are seeing premiums... go up an average of about 15 percent for the coming year — double the rate of last year’s increases. That would mean an ... (more) What Wall Street Wants, Wall Street Gets
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