va de soi<\/strong> selon ce texte parce que tout cela est profond\u00e9ment am\u00e9ricaniste. Cette occurrence montre combien les \u00e9v\u00e9nements actuels, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9s par la d\u00e9bauche d’in\u00e9galit\u00e9, de corruption et de puissance, ne sont pas l’accident d’une attaque terroriste ou d’un pr\u00e9sident inepte, mais la nature m\u00eame de l’am\u00e9ricanisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPar cons\u00e9quent, nous claironnons : \u00abOnly twice before over the past century has 5 percent of the national income gone to families in the upper one-one-hundredth of a percent of the income distribution – currently, the almost 15,000 families with incomes of $9.5 million or more a year, according to an analysis of tax returns by the economists Emmanuel Saez at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSuch concentration at the very top occurred in 1915 and 1916, as the Gilded Age was ending, and again briefly in the late 1920s, before the stock market crash. Now it is back, and Weill is prominent among the new titans. His net worth exceeds $1 billion, not counting the $500 million he says he has already given away, in the open-handed style of Andrew Carnegie and the other great philanthropists of the earlier age.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tConscient de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d’un certain \u00e9quilibre dans le chur du commentaire de l’am\u00e9ricanisme triomphant, l’auteur nous informe de l’existence d’une opposition (une poign\u00e9e de critiques). Il nous en parle sur la fin du pan\u00e9gyrique, confiant sans doute que la plupart de ses lecteurs, rassur\u00e9s, auront abandonn\u00e9 la lecture d’ici l\u00e0. Quant \u00e0 nous, montrant un esprit de lucre compl\u00e8tement perverti jusqu’\u00e0 inverser les valeurs qui comptent, c’est \u00e0 cette partie-l\u00e0 que nous nous attachons. Que Wall Street nous pardonne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abA handful of critics among the new elite, or close to it, are scornful of such self-appraisal. I don’t see a relationship between the extremes of income now and the performance of the economy, Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve Board chairman, said during an interview, challenging the contentions of the very rich that they are, more than others, the driving force of a robust economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe great fortunes today are largely a result of the long bull market in stocks, Volcker said. Without rising stock prices, stock options would not have become a major source of riches for financiers and chief executives. Stock prices rise for a lot of reasons, Volcker said, including ones that have nothing to do with the actions of these people.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe market did not go up because businessmen got so much smarter, he said, adding that the 1950s and 1960s, which the new tycoons denigrate as bureaucratic and uninspiring, were very good economic times and no one was making what they are making now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbJames Sinegal, chief executive of Costco, a discount retailer, echoes that sentiment. Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company, he said. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA legendary chief executive from an earlier era is similarly critical. He is Robert Crandall, 71, who as president and then chairman and chief executive, led American Airlines through the early years of deregulation and pioneered the development of the hub-and-spoke system for managing airline routes. He retired in 1997, never having made more than $5 million a year, in the days before upper-end incomes really took off.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe is speaking out now, he said, because he no longer has to worry that his radical views might damage the reputation of American Airlines or that of the companies he served until recently as a director. The nation’s corporate chiefs would be living far less affluent lives, Crandall said, if fate had put them in, say, Uzbekistan instead of the United States, where they are the beneficiaries of a market system that rewards a few people in extraordinary ways and leaves others behind.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe way our society equalizes incomes, he argued, is through much higher taxes than we have today. There is no other way.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 17 juillet 2007 \u00e0 13H14<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Non, mod\u00e9rons nos transports. La p\u00e9riode actuelle n’est pas unique. Elle trouve son \u00e9quivalent et son inspiration dans ce qu’on nomme le Gilded Age (litt\u00e9ralement : l’\u00c2ge dor\u00e9, dans le sens plut\u00f4t de l’\u00c2ge du plaqu\u00e9-or et, pour certains mauvais esprits, l’\u00c2ge du toc). Il s’agit de cette p\u00e9riode de l’hyper-capitalisme sauvage d\u00e9marrant apr\u00e8s la… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5917,3253,6867,6671],"class_list":["post-69027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-age","tag-americanisme","tag-gilded","tag-riches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}