{"id":391260,"date":"2019-01-01T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-crisis-of-capital-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:34:39","slug":"the-crisis-of-capital-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-crisis-of-capital-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis of Capital – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Charles Hugh Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

OfTwoMinds.com<\/a><\/p>\n

January 1, 2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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These three dynamics render capital increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic losses as backstops and distorted markets fail.<\/i><\/p>\n

The undeniable reality of the 21st century economy is that capital has gained while labor has stagnated.<\/b>\u00a0While various critics quibbled about his methodology, Thomas Piketty\u2019s core finding\u2013that capital expanded faster than GDP and wages\/salaries (i.e. earned income from labor)\u2013is visible in these charts.<\/p>\n

Real wages have gone nowhere for decades.<\/b>\u00a0Only the top 5% of wage earners have outpaced inflation\u2019s erosion of the purchasing power of their earnings.<\/p>\n

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Household net worth has soared $60 trillion while GDP expanded by $9 trillion.\u00a0<\/b>Compare the relative growth trajectories of the economy and net worth of assets. Clearly, capital has expanded at rates far above the expansion rate of the economy.<\/p>\n

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Assets (capital) have exploded higher while real-world inflation (including wages) has remained in line with GDP growth:<\/b>\u00a0modest at best.<\/p>\n

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By Charles Hugh Smith OfTwoMinds.com January 1, 2019 These three dynamics render capital increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic losses as backstops and distorted markets fail. The undeniable reality of the 21st century economy is that capital has gained while labor has stagnated.\u00a0While various critics quibbled about his methodology, Thomas Piketty\u2019s core finding\u2013that capital expanded faster than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}