Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts, researchers have found that inequality in consumption, when measured by current outlays, is less than inequality in income.4 These findings are not surprising. As is well known, consumers tend to maintain their levels of consumption in the face of temporary fluctuations in income.
First of all there was a baseless rumour in the Red Pepper of September 14, 2009 that a “Top Bank faces Closure over Gadaffi Cash” that the workers of "an Islamic founded bank" were about to become jobless and that the top management faced arrest because the bank was being used as a conduit for money "to some officials at Mengo" from foreign sources.