[lbo-talk] A Disturbing Economic Trend in the USA

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 10 21:00:27 PDT 2005


Chuck wrote:
>
> Fellow LBO'ers,
>
> I wanted to see what % of the national income (GDP) went to wages over
> the last 40 years and surprise, surprise the trend is down (data supplied by
> Commerce & BLS):
>

1) The formatting makes the chart extremely difficult to read

2) For those of us who are not economists and not used to dealing with charts, the figures are pretty meaningless anyhow. Your concluding paragraphs would almost make more sense by themselves without the chart.

Carrol



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