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...richest city in the world.” But measured by personal net earnings, New York did not even make the global top ten last year. Did Mr. Serrano mean to make a more modest U.S.-limited comparison, perhaps? A 2005 Forbes rating by the highest median household income reveals that neither New York nor Los Angeles are among the ten richest cities, even in the United States...
...index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, drop more than 13 percent over the same period. The 8.6 percent gain puts Harvard comfortably in the top 5 percent of peer investment groups as measured by the Trust Universe Comparison Service and far outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties of the distress on Wall Street was Sowood Capital Management...
...Median annual U.S. household income in 2007. The number has risen for three straight years...
...MEDIAN SALARIES FOR THOSE WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE ONLY...
...period of disdain for governance - even Bill Clinton said, "The era of Big Government is over" - that reached its nadir in the sloppiness of the current Bush Administration. It is an era that has been marked by a growing disconnect between the very rich and the middle class (median family income has dropped by an estimated $1,000 during the Bush years). And it is an era when even the most rudimentary responsibilities of government have been neglected - like keeping up the country's infrastructure, and not just its roads and bridges but also its educational, energy, information and research...