[SeekAndFind]

[Maceman]

In May 2002, Reuters reported on a survey conducted by the Swedish Research Institute of Trade, known in Sweden by the acronym HUI. According to the article:

Swedes, usually perceived in Europe as a comfortable, middle class lot, are poorer than African Americans, the most economically-deprived group in the United States

"Black people, who have the lowest income in the United States, now have a higher standard of living than an ordinary Swedish household," the HUI economists said.

If Sweden were a U.S. state, it would be the poorest, measured by household gross income before taxes, [the report authors]said.

[Erasmus]

Non-economists, he says, "might have a tendency to fall for those kinds of messages."

And also not a few blokes with economics degrees hanging on their walls, who successfully tout themselves as "economists."

[Excellence]

So resistance isn’t futile after all!

[Erasmus]

"There would be no Ikea without [Ingvar] Kamprad."

Whose companies are an interlocking maze and are HQ'd in Holland, largely to minimize his taxes.