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Land of the Free, Home of the Poor?

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By Barry Ritholtz - August 17th, 2011, 2:26PM

Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality.

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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

One Response to “Land of the Free, Home of the Poor?”

  1. Francois Says:
    August 17th, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Sarcasm alert:

    This is America! Nobody wants to know about the poor. Look at the total absence of comments.

    End of sarcasm

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