Stocks and Mutual Funds: The wealthiest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of all corporate equities and mutual fund shares. The bottom half owns only about 1%.

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• Since the 1950s stocks and bonds have increased in value generally speaking about 7000%.
• So, unless people learn how to invest often they are going to be going backwards economically in this particular era with Trump as president. What will happen to these people in the bottom 50% who don't own stocks or likely own property either? The likely statement might be they could easily starve to death because of AI (Unless people are fed by the Government or Food Banks.
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This data illustrates that while a majority of Americans may have some assets (like a home or retirement account), the bulk of the financial "things" in the country are owned by a small fraction of the population. 

 

Stocks and Mutual Funds: The wealthiest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of all corporate equities and mutual fund shares. The bottom half owns only about 1%.

Private Businesses: The top 1% of households control nearly 80% of the equity in privately held businesses.