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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 23 > After 30-year run, the super-rich hit a sobering wall - one that may last

After 30-year run, the super-rich hit a sobering wall - one that may last

By David Leonhardt and Geraldine Fabrikant / The Bulletin
August 23, 2009

The rich have been getting richer for so long that the trend has come to seem almost permanent.

They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about resurgent Wall Street pay has....

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