Ted McLaughlin : Class Conflict and the Disappearance of the Middle Class

Class conflict risesas middle class disappearsThe growing inequality of wealth and income in this country has reached a point where it is now causing a conflict between the rich (the 1%) and the vast majority of Americans. By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / January 16, 2012The graphic above (from Think Progress) shows what has been happening to the American middle class in the last 40 years. To

Richard D. Jehn : Moving Through the End of Growth

Transformation time. Image from Fluxed Up World.Moving through the end of growthand the collapse of the U.S. as we know itWelcome to the New World.By Richard D. Jehn / The Rag Blog / January 10, 2012Although my headline implies catastrophe, and I firmly believe that there are now factors beyond our control that strongly suggest we are in for an unprecedented hard time, this article is actually