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We may make a distinction between working intermediate bankers and that 10% other side... How would you call the other side? They are mostly in Wall Street, do nothing else besides intermediating between themselves and collecting payments, and any kind of banking is the easiest business for them.
by das monde on Mon Jun 28th, 2010 at 06:00:03 AM EST
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Don't confuse the Wall Streeters with their client/counterparty base.

The 10% are the wealthy in Society who benefit the most from privileged property rights over Commons like land. While some (too many) of the 10%  are in Wall Street, most are not. 90% of us are indebted to the 10% via the Banks.

Wall Street serves the Wealthy 10% and applies a de facto Wealth Tax on them. But it's not Wall Street/the City who own most of the land eg in the UK 0.3% of the population owns 69% of the land.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Mon Jun 28th, 2010 at 06:09:34 AM EST
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What better those 10% do? Are they just old-fashioned rentiers?

If they couldn't indebt the planet so easily, what is their wealth for?

by das monde on Mon Jun 28th, 2010 at 07:48:44 AM EST
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... in the UK 0.3% of the population owns 69% of the land.

Why I think Land Reform is needed in the UK allied with a real Green Revolution© -- a change in the way agriculture is done, not just pouring a butt load of petro-chemicals all over the place raping the future to profit in the present.

 

by ATinNM on Mon Jun 28th, 2010 at 08:45:31 AM EST
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Wall Street serves the Wealthy 10% and applies a de facto Wealth Tax on them.

They definitely tax most of economic activity, for as much as it is dependent on credit. Government taxes are peanuts.

by das monde on Mon Jun 28th, 2010 at 08:47:01 AM EST
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