The West has been giving privileges to the rich.
The West has been cutting the poor.
The West is the enemy of average and ordinary people.
The West is the evil empire.
Please remember, in 1989, the U.S. President was Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
[Wall Street Journal]Feb. 23, 2025
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571
Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon.
The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.
Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics.
Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.
All this means that economic growth is unusually reliant on rich Americans continuing to shell out.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that spending by the top 10% alone accounted for almost one-third of gross domestic product.
Between September 2023 and September 2024, the high earners increased their spending by 12%.
Spending by working-class and middle-class households, meanwhile, dropped over the same period.
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西側は、金持ちに特権を与えてきた。
西側は、弱者切り捨てをしてきた。
西側は、平均的な人々・庶民の敵だ。
西側こそが、悪の帝国だ。
1989年は、ロナルド・レーガンとジョージ・ブッシュが大統領だったことを思い出すべきだ。
[Wall Street Journal]Feb. 23, 2025
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-economy-strength-rich-spending-2c34a571
Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon.
The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.
Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics.
Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.
All this means that economic growth is unusually reliant on rich Americans continuing to shell out.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that spending by the top 10% alone accounted for almost one-third of gross domestic product.
Between September 2023 and September 2024, the high earners increased their spending by 12%.
Spending by working-class and middle-class households, meanwhile, dropped over the same period.
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2025年9月17日
米経済支える個人消費、富裕層依存が鮮明に－景気拡大の持続性に影
https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2025-09-16/T2OLMVGOYMTN00
所得分布上位10％による支出、第2四半期は個人消費全体の49.2%に
米国では富裕層の支出が個人消費全体に占める割合が拡大を続けている。雇用の伸びが鈍り、他の所得層の慎重姿勢で景気減速懸念が強まる中、経済の強さに偏りが目立ってきた。
ムーディーズ・アナリティクスのチーフエコノミスト、マーク・ザンディ氏の分析によると、所得分布上位10％の消費者による支出は4－6月（第2四半期）に消費全体の49.2％を占めた。1－3月（第1四半期）の48.5％から上昇し、1989年以降で最高水準となった
