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Churn in the Fortune 500, 1959-2009

Feb 8, 2010

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in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Economics, History, Trends: Economic

Carpe Diem: Fortune 500 Firms in 1959 vs. 2009; 86% Are Gone … Here's the complete database of the Fortune 500 every year from 1959-2009. Comparing the Fortune 500 in 1959 to 2009, I find that there are only 72 companies that appear in both lists. In other words, only 14% of the Fortune 500…

That ‘Top One Percent’

Nov 29, 2007

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in Economics, Sociology, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Real Clear Politics: That 'Top One Percent' People who are in the top one percent in income receive far more than one percent of the attention in the media. Even aside from miscellaneous celebrity bimbos, the top one percent attract all sorts of hand-wringing and finger-pointing. A recent column by Anna Quindlen in Newsweek (or…

Why Do We Feel So Bad?

Nov 18, 2005

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in Economic Development, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

I just posted nearly three dozen quality of life indicators for America. Most of the indicators show trends toward improving quality of life. In fact, putting all the indicators together, the worst time in America in the last fifty years was not 2005. It was sometime around 1981. Most of the indicators have improved since…

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Churn in the Fortune 500, 1959-2009

That ‘Top One Percent’

Why Do We Feel So Bad?