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Drive that number? >> it has like 5% of the total. so out of 17.4%, maybe a third of it. >> is that mainly wall street-driven or tech-driven? >> all of the above. wall street driven, ceos. it's people in their own businesses, people who started their own manufacturing businesses, things like this. but let's look at wealth inequality. this goes all the way back to 1810. this is 200 years of data. and the red line is britain again and you can see that throughout most of the 19th century into the 20th century, britain, as you would imagine -- i'm sorry, this is europe, was very heavily -- britain...

To say that everyone that i have spoken to believes there is a chance that their loved one is alive. of course, it is human nature you are not going to give up hope unless it is absolutely extinguished for you. otherwise it would not be human. a lot of people believe the plane is hijacked and sitting in a desert somewhere and waiting for the call on their cell phone. of course, as time ticks by and no one claims responsibility and all of the things we have all been talking about it seems less and less likely from a logical standpoint. we are not logical. we want to believe there is hope out th...

Minimum wage would affect 21 million workers nationwide. you think about that the fact that this $2.13 for tip labor it's been that way since i was a waiter out of college. that's what i made. >> these kind of numbers have already been stated and make the case even more so for raising the minimum wage. second. the data shows when the minimum wage has been increased over the last 10 to 20 years, this argument that employment goes down and wages go down has refuted the data and shows unemployment actually goes down. so it should be done. but this issue with this 0.01% and 1%, the administration,...

By itself, but katty k., i think most americans and, yes, conservatives want to know as well as liberals why hedge fund managers that make $150 million or $200 million a year are paying 14% in taxes. they want to know why the two candidates that ran for president last year, mitt romney and barack obama, both paid tax rates in the teens while most other americans paid at least twice as much in tax rates. it's insanity. and of course i'm conservative so on the other end i think you should cap taxes at maybe 35%, 33% and make it a lot flatter than it is. but harold is exactly right. when you have...

Joe, i saw these graphs yesterday when i was coming up on the train. they are staggering how much that 0.01% is gaining income while everyone else is pretty much flat lining. >> but we do all see it, though. we all see the stories about the ceos that make $150 million a year and run their companies into the ground and get a $75 million golden parachute. it's outrageous. gene, back in the 1950s there was that famous expression by, i believe it was the ceo of general motors, who said what's good for general motors is good for america. that may have been the case back in the 1950s because, you kn...