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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by gitgudnubs on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:14PM (#21381751)
No you weren't. That period includes one of the worst recessions in recorded economic history. The other guy either intentionally picked and chose his years, or is simply bad at research.

An inflation adjusted long-term trend is over 7%.

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Re:Americans Now Need at Least $500k a Year to Enter Top 1% by jki275 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:50AM (#21386056)
That's a fair point, but I don't think it's ridiculous to choose the last 20 years as a discussion point.
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