>Here you go:
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 ... his figures are newer than the ones I quoted from 2007: share of income now almost 25% for the top 1%, share of total wealth now 40%. Incomes rising 18% for the top 1% while real incomes FELL for the middle classes. According to him, the US now lags behind any country in George Bush's "old, ossified Europe" and your closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs, and Iran. Is that where you want to be?
Thank you for the link.
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