Far higher than when I was teaching here just 10 years ago. Listen to this. About 19 billionaires have $3.4 trillion, the equivalent of 12.5% of all the goods and services produced in the United States. This is nearly three times more than the wealthiest Americans were worth relative to the size of the economy in the Gilded Age. Three times as much wealth concentration today. (29:11–29:21)
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Asserts that 19 billionaires hold wealth equivalent to 12.5% of U.S. GDP.
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