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Global wealth falls – a first since 2007

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  • 18-10-2012 9:01am
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    http://www.financialexpress.com/news/global-wealth-falls-a-first-since-2007/1018143/0
    Paris: The combined wealth of all individuals has fallen this year for the first time since the financial crisis of 2007-08, with a drop in austerity-hit Europe outweighing a small increase in China, a Credit Suisse report has found. The study found the wealth of all individuals - defined as assets such as income, real estate, savings and investments less debt - fell 5 percent in dollar terms to $223 trillion by mid-2012 from the same time the year before.
    The main driver of the decline was crisis-hit Europe, where wealth fell 14 percent in dollar terms. But the study also attributed the fall to economic recessions in a broader range of countries, lower equity prices and relatively subdued housing markets.

    As if we didn't know already, even the rich aren't as rich as before...


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    mariaalice
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    As if we didn't know already, even the rich aren't as rich as before...

    Capitalism has failed!


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    coffee_cake
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    What capitalism


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    jester77
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    mariaalice wrote: »
    Capitalism has failed!

    Socialism ftw


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    Ghandee
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    Dravokivich
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    So... we're all poor?


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    mariaalice wrote: »
    Capitalism has failed!
    It's really down to limits to growth, "capitalism" requires an infinitely increasing supply of capital (money) to buy and sell an infinitely increasing supply of material/fuel/food to an infinitely increasingly wealthy population.

    So in those terms, yes it's failing.


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    Ghandee
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    So... we're all poor?

    Marginally poorer than the Chinese it seems.


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    Ghandee wrote: »
    Marginally poorer than the Chinese it seems.
    But considerably richer than the average Chinese, most are still dirt poor.


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