Showing posts with label WEALTHY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WEALTHY. Show all posts

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Concentration of wealth in Chile? Shome mishtake shurely ossifer!

Here's the first part of a report over at Mercopress. Click through to read the rest:

Four Chilean families concentrate 47% of assets in Santiago’s stock exchange

Four families in Chile concentrate 47% of the assets of companies quoting in the Santiago Stock exchange according to a book titled “Towards an inclusive growth; economic policy proposals” written by economist Luis Eduardo Cerda.

The book which addresses wealth concentration in Chile names the four families: Andronico Luksic; Anacleto Angelini; Eduardo Matte and current president Sebastián Piñera, whom together made up 9.16% of Chile’s GDP in 2004 and 12.49% of GDP in 2008.

To the 47% of assets in the stock exchange, according to Cerda must be added critical market concentrations in other areas such as CONTINUES HERE

Twelve point five percent of GDP!!!! In four families!!!!! I lol'd.