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Awesome graphs, as usual.

I have one question : what is the percentage of wealth held by the most affluent decile in France, the UK, and Germany, to take only a few examples ? Is there such a difference to the US ?

I'm confident that the current government's policy will soon bring France down to US standards.
In France, contrary to the US, nobody is talking about kicking the Right out of the presidential palace.

Hello, wake up, the country is going back to social middle age.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 12:37:37 PM EST
Only goes to 1998, but shows that France is not really get more unequal:

(I doubt that the situation has worsened so much since then in France)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 12:49:29 PM EST
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You can clearly see the Thatcher and Reagan effects on this chart.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 12th, 2006 at 12:59:43 PM EST
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