>Gag. Doesn't PPP count for anything? A Muscovite who earns $12,000 a
>year has more buying power than a New Yorker who earns $75,000.
The underlying stats are from Branko Milanovic of the World Bank, who did use PPP. Milanovic isn't some standard-issue WB hack either - he's somewhere left of center, though I'm not sure how far left.
Doug