Joseph Stiglitz: Economic Inequality Preventing A Robust Recovery
βWhat sustains the American economy is consumption, and the people at the top spend on consumption a smaller fraction than those at the bottom. In fact, those at the bottom have to β to get by β spend about basically 100 percent. So when you move money from the bottom and the middle to the top, overall spending gets constrained, and that weakens the economy,β economist Joseph Stiglitz said on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" this weekend. (via Raw Story)
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