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The Core Corporation Is ... Increasingly A Façade, Behind Which Teems An Array Of Decentralized Groups And Subgroups Continuously Contracting With Similarly Diffuse Working Units All Over The World.

Given That Ever-broadening Array Of Options And Alternatives, As Consumers And Investors, We Are Often Bewildered. We Need Guidance. That's Where Today's Brands Come In. They Are Not So Much Signals About A Particular Product, They Are Signals About Good Judgment, Trustworthiness. A Big Brand, Whether It's Schwab Or Disney, Is Becoming Analogous To A Portal That Sells Us Advice About Where We Can Find Great Deals.

If Consumers Don't Have The Wherewithal To Spend Because All The Money's Going To The Top, And The People At The Top Only Spend A Very Small Fraction Of What They Earn, Then The Economy Is Almost Inevitably Destined To Slow.

We're The Richest Economy In The History Of The World. For The Majority Of Americans Not To Get The Benefits Of This Extraordinarily Prosperous Economy, There's Something Fundamentally Wrong.

The Silent Majority Really Is A Liberal Majority, Even Though The Word Liberal Has Taken A Real Beating Over The Last 20 Years By Radical Conservatives.