Dept. of Finance
September 2, 2019 Issue
The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They?
Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.
By Liaquat Ahamed New Yorker 2019. The jump in inequality has been most dramatic in the United States, where the share of income going to the top one per cent has soared from eight per cent in the early eighties to almost twenty per cent today.
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Dept. of Finance
September 2, 2019 Issue
The Rich Can’t Get Richer Forever, Can They?
Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.
By Liaquat Ahamed New Yorker 2019. The jump in inequality has been most dramatic in the United States, where the share of income going to the top one per cent has soared from eight per cent in the early eighties to almost twenty per cent today.
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