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Every so often throughout history, the peasants grab their pitchforks and come for the elite. It happens when the wealth gap grows too extreme… when people feel like they are getting left behind, with no opportunity to advance.
Central banks around the world have printed trillions of dollars over last decade, and pushed interest rates to zero, and sometimes below. And all of that stimulus went directly into the pockets of the wealthy.
Since 2009, the world’s billionaires more than DOUBLED their combined wealth. All the billionaires in the world had $3.4 trillion in 2009. By 2017, they amassed $8.9 trillion.
Mark Zuckerberg multiplied his wealth almost 20 times over, from $3 billion in 2009, to over $58 billion in 2019.
$8.9 trillion is a massive, almost incomprehensible amount of wealth.
For the last ten years, we’ve seen a huge asset price inflation in everything from the stock market, to bonds and real estate, and even fine art and wine.
But if you’re a wage earner without assets, you’ve been left out. Wages and median household wealth have stagnated.
And this is a global issue…
The combined wealth of the poorest half of the world–3.8 billion people–fell by 11% just last year, according to Oxfam, a group working to alleviate poverty.
The New York Times claims the richest 8 people on the planet have more wealth than the poorest 3.8 billion.
And Forbes says the 3 richest Americans have as much wealth as the poorest half of the country’s population.
People feel trapped, like they have no path to prosperity. They see money thrown around by the government, and the rich. They see stocks and real estate boom… but where is theirs?
Meanwhile a tiny group got embarrassingly rich.
I’m not trying to sound like some radical, left-wing, social justice warrior. I just know that throughout history, whenever the wealth gap gets large enough, everything falls apart.
Sometimes that happens through legislation and sometimes it happens through violence. People demand that their politicians forcefully redistribute the wealth. And the politicians, always hungry for more power, are happy to step up to the plate.
[NOTE these are the same politicians who bailed out the major banks when their corrupt fraudulent mortgage bond market collapsed in 2008! They helped make these billionaires get richer off America's expense already!]
We’re starting to see this in America today.
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