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Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by y4mi on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:34AM (#20188844)
It's hard to actually understands the current state of our economy and I doubt I do to any significant degree, but from what I gathered from your linked article, they're purely looking at net-worth.

This ignores inflation and rising housing costs etc.

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Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by mdorazio on Saturday June 15, 2019 @10:42AM (#20190212)
I guess I'm not understanding the difference between net-worth and wealth in economic terms here then. I assumed they were roughly equivalent.
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