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The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine Published: February 9, 2021 Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. Ive been covering the decline of Americas middle class for over a decade with charts, data and commentary on the social depression that has accompanied the decline. While there are many mutually reinforcing dynamics in this 45-year decline--demographics, ...

This heavily managed ‘market structure’ is far from equilibrium and extremely prone to instability. The relentless melt-up in stocks offers ample evidence that the market is rock-solid and that any decline is an enormous opportunity to  buy the dip. That this has worked splendidly for the past 13 years cannot be denied. This doesn’t necessarily guarantee the next 13 years will merely be an extension of the same trend. The market’s sources of fragility and brittleness are well cloaked...