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发帖数: 202 | 1 http://www.mitbbs.com/news_wenzhang/MiscNews/31239737.html
编者按：中国威风凛凛的崛起经常标上回归历史正常水平。普遍的说法认为在过去5000
年的大部分时间，中国是世界财富、文化、科技和权力的中心。Mitbbs.com
China’s awe-inspiring rise is often framed as the return to a historical
norm. A common belief is that for most of the last 5,000 years, China was
the world’s center of wealth, culture, technology, and power. The 19th and
20th centuries, we are told, were a brief aberration, and China is now
simply retaking its rightful place as the world’s preeminent nation.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 907 | 2 叫兽别的不行，就会信口胡说
In terms of GDP per capita, Ireland is ranked as one of the wealthiest
countries in the OECD and the EU-27 at 5th in the OECD-28 rankings as of
2008[7] |
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发帖数: 560 | 3 The gap between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest is bigger than at
any time since the 1920s — just before the Depression. According to an
analysis this year by Edward Wolff of New York University, the top 20% of
wealthy individuals own about 85% of the wealth, while the bottom 40% own
very near 0%. Many in that bottom 40% not only have no assets, they have
negative net wealth.
A gap this pronounced raises the politically divisive question of whether
there is a need for wealth redistribut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4978 | 4 黑人兄弟真的不是治理国家的料呀。
One in three South African men admit to rape, survey finds
South African survey in province of Gauteng finds 37.4% of men confessing to
rape, while 25.3% of women say they are victims
More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to
rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy.
Researchers found that more than three in four men said they had perpetrated
violence against women.
Nearly nine in 10 men believe that a woman sh... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7106 | 5 Obama: Framework for bipartisan deal would extend all Bush-era tax cuts for
two years and jobless benefits for 13 months. |
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发帖数: 26623 | 7 减税容易增税难。美国的财政赤字只能靠印钞票解决了。 |
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发帖数: 1769 | 9 民主大国果然是不一样
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?268044
The China Link
•Chinese labourers brought to northeastern India by the British in
early 19th century to work in tea gardens
•They were concentrated in Makum, Shillong and Tezpur
•Over 2,000 arrested after the ’62 Chinese aggression, ostensibly “
to be protected”, but actually to be monitored, at Deoli, Rajasthan
•More than half of them sent to China; some families split up. No
apology ever rendered.
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发帖数: 2136 | 10 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: 傻拉呸淋的孪生兄弟在威斯康星被找到
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Feb 26 17:46:50 2011, 美东)
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, falls for phone prank
Republican is duped by a caller pretending to be one of the rightwing Koch
brothers, some of his wealthiest backers
The Republican governor at the centre of the union-busting protests in the
US has been embarrassed by a prank call that he believed was from one of his
billionaire backers.
On the record... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2057 | 11 Wen Jiabao Sees Billionaires When Communists Convene as Wealth Gap Widens
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-03/wen-sees-billionaires-
congress-as-wealth-gap-widens.html
The richest 70 of the 2,987 members have a combined wealth of 493.1
billion yuan ($75.1 billion), and include China’s richest man, Hangzhou
Wahaha Group Chairman Zong Qinghou, according to the research group Hurun
Report. By comparison, the wealthiest 70 people in the 535-member U.S.
House and Senate, who represent a country ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12067 | 12 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: chiwawa (Takoyaki - 章鱼小丸子), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 世界最富女人(self-made)一半在中国
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Mar 10 16:19:40 2011, 美东)
The great wealth of China
The richest self-made women in the world
Oct 13th 2010
ZHANG YIN, who made her money in the paper industry, is the wealthiest
businesswoman in the world, according to Hurun Report, a Chinese magazine.
Its ranking of the 20 richest self-made women (those who earned their money)
combines its own findings with those of Forbes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 13 美国普通人非常痛恨过度的福利制度
主贴:
Tea Party 'tantrum' not good for nation
1:30 PM, Aug. 5, 2011 |
66Comments
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20110808/VIEWPOINTS03/108080
Thanks to the Tea Party. For them, it's my way or the highway — does that
remind you of your children's temper tantrums? Well, it worked!
Forget the poor, the elderly and the unemployed, while the wealthiest
continue to enjoy their quality of life at the expense of the rest of us.
God help us.
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Adkins
Elmira
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发帖数: 29576 | 14 Kotkin的文章一向比较有深度，没什么nonsense，比很多NYT和WP的columnists有内容
多了。
The Crisis of the "Gentry Presidency"
By Joel Kotkin September 15 2011
Appearing in:
Politico
The Obama administration’s belated attempt to address the looming
employment crisis — after three years focused largely on reviving Wall
Street, redoing health care and creating a “green” economy — reflects not
only ineptitude but a deeper crisis of what is best understood as the “
gentry presidency.”
Unlike previous Democratic presidents, includi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 789 | 15 FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
by Associated Press
KING5.com
Posted on September 20, 2011 at 7:37 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are
millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their
secretaries.
"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and
billionaires," Obama said Monday. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard
to argue against that."
The data tell a different story. On average, the wea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 16 罪恶贪婪的共产政府,资本家哪里比的过.
Top Income in U.S. Is...Gasp!...Wash. D.C. Area
Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the
nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San
Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show. |
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发帖数: 2682 | 19 Guangdong > Île-de-France (the wealthiest and most populated of the
twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris
metropolitan area.)
Jiangsu > Illinois
Shandong > Bavaria 巴伐利亚(首府位于慕尼黑) |
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发帖数: 4825 | 20 http://www.economist.com/node/21543178
MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor
the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions
earned from computer data on losing bids in 1992 and 1996. Since then men
who owe their or their family’s fortunes to oil, sport, publishing, trial
law, ketchup, beer and bestselling autobiographies have followed.
But Mr Romney, who earned his $200m or so as a private-equity executive
buying and selling companies,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1374 | 21 Beijing Bling: Wealth On Display In China's Congress
http://tinyurl.com/7pd4qy6
March 13, 2012
A leather belt from Hermes priced at almost $1,000 — nearly a year's salary
for the average Chinese farmer. A bright pink, $2,000 trouser suit from
Emilio Pucci. A red snakeskin Celine handbag that costs $4,500.
These weren't items at a fashion show, but luxury goods spotted on delegates
hurrying to China's annual legislative assembly sessions.
Li Xiaolin, daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8912 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 Medicalpractice 讨论区 】
发信人: Aplusplus (Hakuna Matata), 信区: Medicalpractice
标 题: 这个世界就是少数人养活多数人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Mar 16 20:33:50 2012, 美东)
起这个题目会挨多数人的砖头， 不过请暴民们先抑制一下， lol
大家先看一下事实：
The latest data show that a big portion of the federal income tax burden is
shouldered by a small group of the very richest Americans. The
wealthiest 1 percent of the population earn 19 percent of the income
but pay 37 percent of the income tax. The top 10 percent pay 68 percent of
the tab. Meanw... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10248 | 24 10. 90077
> Median list price: $2.82 million
> City/town: Bel Air, Calif.
> Year-over-year change: 16.4%
In Bel Air, nestled in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, great views command
a hefty price tag. Media rooms are a must-have because many locals work in
what’s known as “The Industry,” meaning Hollywood. One current listing is
a $29.9 million property that boasts 20,000-square feet in a “glorious,
gated and private compound.” In ritzy Bel Air, it’s not enough to own a
pool, you also need to ha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 25 Published January 03, 2013 FoxNews.com
HONOLULU -- President Obama late Wednesday signed the fiscal crisis bill
passed by Congress using an autopen while on vacation with his family in
Hawaii.
The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge
the nation back into recession, boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans,
while preserving tax cuts for most American households.
It also extends expiring jobless benefits, prevents cuts in Medicare
reimbursements to doctors an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33885 | 26 习主席访贫问苦这种事，在资本主义社会里是根本不会发生的。习主席访贫问苦，因为
中国是个共产党领导的社会。为人民服务，为老百姓谋福利，是共产党的责任。
相反的是：资本主义社会却是个人吃人的社会，劳动人民真不知到有多苦。人不为己，
天诛地灭。当选的领导为的都是自己的私利。人民的死活管不了，也不想管。
有wsn会说，你搞错了吧？我在资本主义社会里生活得很好啊！我说：那你是一叶障目
，不见树林而已。你有今天的幸福生活，只不过是你上辈子或者是你妈你爸给你修来的
福，不要恬不知耻，自以为是了。
资本主义社会很多穷人的日子你是想像不到的，如果你不愿意睁开眼睛去看看的话。
比如说下面这段文字里的梁先生。67岁了，孤家寡人，住在一个铁笼里。
你看，难道老百姓连基本的生活权利都没有了吗？难道连基本的人权都没有吗？正是如
此。这就是答案：资本主义就是这样一个冷酷无情，人剥削人，人吃人的社会，就是一
个欺善怕恶，好人和善良的人无法生存的社会。
你说香港搞资本主义已经一百多年了。看见这样的情形，你们难道还对资本主义制度抱
有幻想吗？
Feb 07, 2013 8:26 AM EST
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发帖数: 12601 | 27 还好了，UTILITY+TAX一年也就30K。老中买了的话，冬天暖气再开小点，还能省不少
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/booming/their-castle-could-be
“Sure it’s great to live in a castle, but what about the heating bills?”
Not as bad as they might be. By setting up a zone heating system, they were
able to hold the 2012 utility bills — electric, gas, oil and water — to $
13,076.25, though on the coldest winter days, everyone wears a hoodie and
loads up on hot cocoa.
Taxes last year were $17,532.87, about half of what homeowners in the
w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 28 China is plundering the planet's seas -- and it's doing it 12.5 times more t
han it's telling anybody 发贴心情 Post By：4/30/2013 3:23:00 PM
http://qz.com/78803/china-fishing-more-than-its-telling-anybody/
I was just in the Bahamas and one of the locals was telling me about how the
Chinese sent a factory processing ship with about 10 fishing boats to the B
ahamas to fish and it was literally draining the oceans so fast and destroyi
ng the Bahamian fish market (they were sending everything... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8998 | 29 PBS's Koch Problem: How a Major Right-Wing Funder Undercut Key Films
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174426/pbss-koch-problem-how-majo
Don’t miss Jane Mayer’s feature at The New Yorker, just posted online, on
little-known story of how PBS’s WNET in New York reacted in showing Alex
Gibney doc Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. The film did
air, but see what surrounded it.
Problem: It partly focused on the Koch Brothers, and David Koch is a major,
longtime WNET funder. So WNET bent ov... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4196 | 30 It’s Friday, and around the world, employees are anxiously waiting for the
weekend to commence. But where, exactly, are the workers who deserve that
time off the most?
Every year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD
)compiles employment data from each of its 34 member countries.
The results revealed the hardest-working countries on earth (presented in
descending order).
1. Mexico
Our neighbor south of the border took first place in the ranking, clocking
in at 2,317 a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2883 | 31 税后5万已经是很好的专业工作了。我们口说无凭，看这个，加拿大2011人口统计报告
显示，个人收入中间值才2万7千六百。这还是税前的数。加拿大中产阶级是大多数，也
就是说一个中产阶级个人的收入也就平均3万左右。
而华人作为一个整体，有专业工作的基本一直保持在华人人口1/3的比例。我都不知道
人们为什么把加拿大想象成天堂。。。
It shows that the median family income in Canada is $76,000 — generally
higher in the west than the east — while the median individual income is
just $27,600. That means just as many individuals earn less than $27,600 as
earn more.
The richest 10 per cent of individuals are making more than $80,400. And the
very rich — the 272,600 indi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 32 Biden Faults China on Foreign Press Crackdown
By MARK LANDLER
Published: December 4, 2013
BEIJING — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took up the cause of foreign
journalists facing banishment from China for news coverage, publicly
criticizing the Chinese government’s pressure campaign and privately
raising the problems with President Xi Jinping.
Related
Mr. Biden also met on Thursday with correspondents based in China from
several news organizations mainly affected by the crackdown, most notab... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 370 | 34 RICHARD KELLEYRICHARD KELLEY 3 hours ago
@JASON FRANK @RICHARD KELLEY Once you coerce Congress to raise the debt
limit you need an ‘expediter’ to convert the debt to cash so it can be
squandered.It is tricky. You have to add to $17T debt, AND keep interest
rates down so debt servicing costs don’t show the real, pathetic value of
the dollar
Beautiful. Loopy issues the bonds, Yellen buys them at insanely low rates,
and the band plays on - except - some ugly day - the folks from whom we
borrow $40... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 178 | 35 Re. I've read the comments of the news made by native Americans, while very
few felt grateful. For the Chan Family, it might be "ridiculous and sad"
that most of them believed such a large amount of donation to one of the
wealthiest private universities is a great contribution to the increasing
social inequality in the America.It would be better if the donation could be
split up among different universities/institutions in both US and China. |
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发帖数: 17328 | 36 记住“羊毛出在羊身上”，“天下的公务员一样黑”，剩下的就可以推论了，什么
income tax，property tax, sale tax，这个少点，那个就多点，不同的税率不同的人
群受益或受损而已。
马里兰的PG county是“wealthiest African American-majority county”，
REAL *PERSONAL **UTILITY
0.96 2.4 2.4
紧邻的Montgomery County是美国最富的counties之一。
REAL *PERSONAL **UTILITY
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发帖数: 847 | 37 The Internal Revenue Service was created in 1913 with the passage of the
16th Amendment. It is the government agency responsible for the collection
of all income tax. Prior to the 16th Amendment, a tax on income was
explicitly illegal as set forth in the Constitution. There was a brief time
during the Civil War that the government imposed an income tax on the people
, but it was later shut down in court as being unconstitutional. In the
early days of the IRS, the new income tax was intended to o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3718 | 38 Follow BI
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发帖数: 38600 | 39 "I profoundly believe many of the conflicts, the refugee crises, the
military interventions over the years, may have been avoided if nations had
truly invested in the lives of their people, and if the wealthiest nations
on earth were better partners in working with those trying to lift
themselves up," he said during remarks on global development. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 40 "I profoundly believe many of the conflicts, the refugee crises, the
military interventions over the years, may have been avoided if nations had
truly invested in the lives of their people, and if the wealthiest nations
on earth were better partners in working with those trying to lift
themselves up," he said during remarks on global development. |
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发帖数: 21010 | 42 Remarks of President Barack Obama – State of the Union Address As Delivered
The White House is once again making the full text of the State of the
Union widely available online. The text, as prepared for delivery, is also
available on Medium and Facebook notes, continuing efforts to meet people
where they are and make the speech as accessible as possible. Through these
digital platforms, people can follow along with the speech as they watch in
real time, view charts and infographics on key areas... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3319 | 43 要相信美国无产阶级的广泛性。即时现在还早一点，过10年差不多了。复习一下美国梦
已死的雄文。
#6 According to the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of all
American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
#7 For the poorest 20 percent of all Americans, median household wealth
declined from negative 905 dollars in 2000 to negative 6,029 dollars in 2011.
#11 If you can believe it, the 20 wealthiest people in this country now have
more money than the poorest 152 million Americans combined.
#12 The top 0.1 percent of all American families... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9770 | 45 http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20160330/c30mag-hedgefund1/dual/
The Fall of China’s Hedge Fund King
By ALEX W. PALMER March 30, 2016
中国“私募一哥”的覆灭
ALEX W. PALMER 2016年3月30日
At 10:33 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1 of last year, the highway police in Ningbo,
an industrial city on China’s eastern coast, posted a seemingly innocuous
message to their official microblog. “Due to sudden traffic control,” the
message read, “all the entrances and exits of the G15 Expressway at
Hangzhou Bay Bridge have been closed.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 46 The true mettle of a nation is how their diaspora feel about the homeland. I
find that Chinese Americans (ones in the US for many years) are more
ashamed of their homeland than every before. You do not instill pride in
your people by cheating, bullying, and breaking international laws--no
matter how militarily or economically powerful you become. Honor comes from
being just to your people, to all others, and making the world better place.
The fact that the wealthiest Chinese are emigrating in va... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 32207 | 47 为什么要上正式台面？人家有这需求么？
但人家的影响力还在，生活水平还在，那就足够了。这些才是实打实的好处。
如果可以的话，谁愿意在外面抛头露面呢？
不妨去查查wealthiest family列表，上面很多人都是没听过的。
且不说那些更加低调的hidden wealth。 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 48 疮轮人傻钱多，速来。马其顿16岁少年如是说。
马其顿共和国四万五千人口的小城Veles拥有140个美国选举有关的网站，大多是青少年
开办，通过制造各种疮轮喜爱的谓新闻大发利市，有些可以达到每天3000刀的进账。
看到这则新闻，美新版的成天期盼所谓大料的疮轮还敢说自己有平均以上的智商？
“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com
. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in
2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.
“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.
For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the
baseless story generate o... 阅读全帖 |
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