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Thursday, January 10, 2008


The "Decline" of the Middle Class
The populist card is getting played a lot these days. Just to show how terrible things aren't, the crying is about the middle class.

As George Bullard reminds us, though, one reason for the decline of the middle class is the growth of the upper class: People are, to borrow a line from a 70s TV show, "moving on up."

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