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Originally Posted by JaysonAych
...the gap between the super-rich in the upper 1% and the middle and lower classes was at it's highest point since just before the Great Depression. Since the Depression, that gap had been fairly modest until the last several years before the gap exploded open....
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Fairly modest gap? Are you kidding? By 1989 that "modest gap" had the top 1% owning more assets than the bottom 80%. That's a ratio typical of a third world country.