(Lucas: The bookkeeping and statistics on this I for sure doubt. It must be unimaginably more than here said , but OK. You get the picture! The evidence of the fraud, deceit, robbery and greed is being shown again. )
Oh, are we getting ripped off. And now we’ve got the data to prove it. From 2009 to 2011, the richest 8 million families (the top 7 percent) on average saw their wealth rise from $1.7 million to $2.5 million each. Meanwhile the rest of us — the bottom 93 percent (that’s 111 million families) — suffered on average a decline of $6,000 each. Continue reading