Iuri Colares

“Why is it so hard to say clearly that privatization would worsen, not improve, Social Security’s finances?”
― Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

“Alternation between parties is normal in a democracy, and these Democratic victories were in part a consequence of the voters’ natural fatigue with the Republicans, who had also been tarnished by various financial scandals, as often happens to parties in power.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

“Between 1972 and 2001 the wage and salary income of Americans at the 90th percentile of the income distribution rose only 34 percent, or about 1 percent per year. So being in the top 10 percent of the income distribution, like being a college graduate, wasn’t a ticket to big income gains. But income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent. No, that’s not a misprint.”
― Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

“inequality in these regions has always been high: they never experienced a relatively egalitarian “social-democratic” phase (much less a communist one).”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology