<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="iv gt gE" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto;"><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELI7W5kTghBtuspHqdy6Gb0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowi_yDCzDblYADMKD_9QU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELI7W5kTghBtuspHqdy6Gb0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowi_yDCzDblYADMKD_9QU?hl%3Den-US%26gl%3DUS%26ceid%3DUS%253Aen&source=gmail&ust=1560809564878000&usg=AFQjCNFmIq25hAx0b83y5dXNtIt-Xpm0Lg" class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">The One Percent Have Gotten $21 Trillion Richer <b class="">Since 1989</b>. The Bottom 50% Have Gotten Poorer.</a></div><div class=""><div id=":15w" class="gt ii" style="direction: ltr; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div id=":15v" class="a3s aXjCH " style="overflow: hidden; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">According to the Federal Reserve's Distributive Financial Accounts data, the richest 1 percent of Americans became $21 trillion wealthier over the 30 years ...</div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMIv8gwsw25WAAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMIv8gwsw25WAAw?hl%3Den-US%26gl%3DUS%26ceid%3DUS%253Aen&source=gmail&ust=1560809564878000&usg=AFQjCNFfwyjhaMG0MbAf7bBvxIh-XrCMTA" class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">New York Magazine<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">8 hours ago</span></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">==============================</span><wbr class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">==============================</span><wbr class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">==============================</span><wbr class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">============</span></div></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">"Controlled capitalism … had been a truly colossal success. From the end of the Second World War until the mid-1970s the American and European economies were uplifted </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">by many years of rapid growth, bringing affluence from the relatively few to almost all."</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">"In the late 1970s the tendency to control capitalism was abruptly reversed."</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">“ … the most striking feature of our turbo-capitalist times, the hollowing-out of democratic governance over the economy.”</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><b class="">1998</b></span> in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">1999</span> </b>in the U.S. by Harper Collins.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr class="">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<wbr class="">++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="">“The gap between high- and low-income families has widened steadily since about 1980, hitting a new high every year since 1985. “</div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="">Business Week, November 21, <span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"><b class="">1994</b></span>, p. 72.</div></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>