“We are coming from an abnormal period where a tremendous amount of wealth was created largely by selling assets back and forth.

Some of this wealth was based on real economic gains, like those from the computer revolution. But much of it was not, you had wealth creation that could not be tied to the underlying economy and the benefits were very skewed: they went to the assets of the rich. It was financial engineering.”

Helaas is de inkomensongelijkheid nog steeds schrijnend, de top 10% haalt 50% van het nationaal inkomen weg, de top 1% strijkt 25% op en de top 0,01% gaat naar huis met 6 % van het nationaal inkomen in de V.S..