cause is inflation and the inflation of food prices is that the rising inequality reflected in the gini coefficient index here's some reasons that i'm going to look at first headline tony blair mubarak is quote immensely courageous and a force for good but yes he actually said this on the piers morgan show we're not going to actually listen to his words because i just can't stand listening to him but i'm going to say what i think he was actually saying mubarak is immensely courageous for looting so much money from his people so openly and brazenly and a force for good kickbacks barack obama tony blair they're good if there's a revolution great will send them the vodaphone in the starbucks no revolution great will send in some bombers and some tear gas canisters we make money no matter what happens because we're over drug stores and politicians but the other important thing about this this is. class of global kleptocrats globally connected elite who plunder their own countries together and this brings me to this next story egypt's mubarak likely to retain vast wealth mubarak family may h

personal income on food so on and in egypt much of the personal income goes to food plus you have the gini coefficient exploding equals revolution so if you want to handicap which countries are next to pop that's the way you do it well i have a headline here max if inequality is a factor for egypt dot dot dot if you take a look at that little chart this is the jenny coefficient index which zero is perfect equality everybody is. exactly the equal amount one hundred is only one person owns all of the wealth of the nation so the closer one hundred you are the higher the number the more on equal it is pakistan is thirty point six egypt thirty four israel thirty nine point two tunisia forty and the us forty five yeah the us is very high on that list which would portend insurrection and regime change but the thing that keeps it from happening is that percentage of income toward food is still low because of the us dollars world reserve currency so food and energy are still relatively low this is what is keeping the wave of global insurrection at bay in a country like the us but it will get there