[MCN] What’s your ‘wealth number’? Find out how rich you are on a scale from minus-2 to 11

Lance Olsen lance at wildrockies.org
Wed Oct 2 17:28:40 EDT 2019


MarketWatch 

What’s your ‘wealth number’? Find out how rich you are on a scale from minus-2 to 11

Published: Oct 1, 2019 3:54 p.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-your-wealth-number-this-is-how-rich-you-are-on-a-scale-from--2-to-11-2019-10-01 <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/whats-your-wealth-number-this-is-how-rich-you-are-on-a-scale-from--2-to-11-2019-10-01>





$$$  Who’s the richest ? $$$

We're All the 1 Percent – Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/ <https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/> <https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#> <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yapyloaVjVoJ:https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
Feb 27, 2012 - But the global average is about a fifth of that. So by global standards, America's middle class is also really, really rich. To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.
Half the world's richest 1% live in the United States - Jan. 4, 2012
https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm <https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm> <https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#> <https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hBEabNzxQO8J:https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
Jan 4, 2012 - The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world's rich people. It only takes $34,000 a year, after taxes, to be among the richest 1% in the world. ... The rest are mainly scattered throughout Europe, Latin America and a few Asian countries.
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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018

Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 

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