The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.
Monday, February 08, 2010
Up In Smoke: One Third of the Gains Since the Start of 2009
It may be hard to belive, but 35% of the S&P 500's gains since the start of 2009 have now been erased over a span of less than 14 trading days. After gaining 247 points in 2009 and the first two and a half weeks of 2010, the S&P 500 has dropped 86 points since its January 19th peak of 1,150.
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