{"id":4399,"date":"2010-08-01T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:30:44","slug":"the-great-stagnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-great-stagnation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Stagnation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Via<\/a> the Financial Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the \u201cpersonal recession\u201d that ordinary Americans had been suffering for years. Dubbed \u201cmedian wage stagnation\u201d by economists, the annual incomes of the bottom 90 per cent of US families have been essentially flat since 1973 \u2013 having risen by only 10 per cent in real terms over the past 37 years. That means most Americans have been treading water for more than a generation. Over the same period the incomes of the top 1 per cent have tripled. In 1973, chief executives were on average paid 26 times the median income. Now the multiple is above 300.
\nThe trend has only been getting stronger. Most economists see the Great Stagnation as a structural problem \u2013 meaning it is immune to the business cycle. In the last expansion, which started in January 2002 and ended in December 2007, the median US household income dropped by $2,000 \u2013 the first ever instance where most Americans were worse off at the end of a cycle than at the start. Worse is that the long era of stagnating incomes has been accompanied by something profoundly un-American: declining income mobility. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The FT<\/em> being the FT<\/em>, this article (which is nevertheless well worth reading) comes with the usual leftish slant (what has CEO pay got to do with all this?), and it is striking that its author has nothing to say about the impact of mass immigration on wage rates within the US, but the Great Stagnation is, sadly, all too real \u2013 and it is unlikely to mean anything good for this country\u2019s politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via the Financial Times: The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the \u201cpersonal recession\u201d that ordinary Americans had been suffering for years. Dubbed \u201cmedian wage … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[589,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}