Is the US empire in the middle of a long decline?
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Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Oversimplification
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Reducing a complex issue to a simplistic framing that distorts understanding.
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“Richard Wolff, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts”
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Multiple authoritative sources, including Wikipedia and the University of Massachusetts Amherst's own special collections finding aid, explicitly state that Richard D. Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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— Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ma…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Wolff
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— Stephen Alvin Resnick (; October 24, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an American Marxist economist. He was well known for his work (much of it written together with Richard D. Wolff) on Marxian economics,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Resnick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Resnick
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— The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusett…
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“the richest 10 percent of Americans own 80 percent of corporate stocks”
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Different sources provide conflicting figures for the percentage of stocks owned by the top 10% of Americans. One source cites 93% based on Fed data, while another (The Motley Fool) cites 87%. The claim of 80% is not explicitly confirmed by the provided evidence, and the available data points suggest a higher concentration of ownership than the claim states, but the lack of a single consensus figure makes it disputed.
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— African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group who, as defined by the United States census, consists of Americans who have…
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— Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States. U.S. federal law does not equate nationality with race or ethnicity, but rather with citizenship. The U.S. has 37 ancestry groups with mo…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans
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— The Americans is an American period spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg for FX. It aired for six seasons from January 30, 2013, to May 30, 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also served as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans
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