I think of most of the things I've read in newspapers this year, maybe the one that sticks in my mind the most was in the Wall Street Journal. I apologize to the Times, but to read These sentences in the Journal was striking. The net worth held by the top 0.1% of households in the US reached $23.3 trillion in the second quarter of this year. That is up from $10.7 trillion a decade earlier. Earlier, the amount held by the bottom 50% increased to 4.2 trillion from 900 billion. (48:23–48:32)
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Asserts that the top 0.1% of US households hold $23.3 trillion in net worth.
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