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In Reply to: Hip, Hip...The Dow is above 30,000 posted by B. Scarpia on November 24, 2020 at 12:17:54:
"That's because 84% of stocks owned by U.S. households are held by the wealthiest 10% of Americans, according to an analysis of 2016 Federal Reserve data by Edward Wolff, an economics professor at New York University.Feb 5, 2020" reuters.comWhen one looks at overall wealth, bank deposits, land, etc. it's even far more concentrated.
Why people think CEOs, millionaires, and billionaires make good political candidates is beyond my comprehension. NONE of our great presidents was a great businessman, a magnate. Those men, in fact, were hated by our grandparents and stigmatized, for generations, as Robber Barons. It seems people tend to forget how the "Robber" part of that was earned.
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- Stock market increasingly detached from middle-class reality. - tinear 11/24/2012:55:01 11/24/20 (14)
- Short video from professor Robert Reich makes the same point... - vacuous 13:56:00 11/24/20 (0)
- Still... - Inmate51 13:45:27 11/24/20 (0)
- You spout garbage..... - double28 13:34:12 11/24/20 (6)
- I think it's safe to say you never studied statistics? nt - tinear 17:51:41 11/24/20 (3)
- RE: I think it's safe to say you never studied statistics? nt - double28 02:01:53 11/25/20 (2)
- Well. let's hear it. What are your credentials? nt - Rick W 08:00:46 11/25/20 (1)
- Impeccable - double28 09:56:14 11/25/20 (0)
- RE: You spout garbage..... - rivervalley817 14:46:03 11/24/20 (0)
- You're both right. - ghost of olddude55 14:18:56 11/24/20 (0)
- RE: Middle-class reality. ? - B. Scarpia 13:12:07 11/24/20 (4)
- Not in Europe/Scandinavia it isn't. Upward mobility there is far beyond what obtains here, too. Of course, - tinear 13:19:46 11/24/20 (3)
- RE: Not in Europe/Scandinavia it isn't. Upward mobility there is far beyond what obtains here, too. Of course, - b.l.zeebub 02:22:58 11/25/20 (0)
- RE: You really need to stop thinking of the past 75 years like it's the norm of the past 5,000 nt - B. Scarpia 13:23:11 11/24/20 (1)
- You need to move from the cave/fiefdom/work prison! nt - tinear 13:24:55 11/24/20 (0)