The Impoverishment of the Middle Class: When Empire Hits Home, Part 2 http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-impoverishment-of-the-middle-class-when-empire-hits-home-part-2/

“The world has already, in the past two years, witnessed the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.[78] What will follow is a global restructuring of class structure as the western educated middle class will largely be decimated and liquidated of all its material wealth. This is a new phase of globalization.”