CSPAN Washington This Week March 15, 2015
Doing phenomenally well. The gap between the very, very rich and everyone else is growing wider and wider and wider. The top 1 now owns about 41 of the entire wealth of this country, while the bottom 60 owns less than 2 . Today, incredibly the top 1 10 of 1 , 1 10 of 1 now owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Today the walton family, the owner of walmart, is now worth 157 billion. That is more wealth than the bottom 42 of the American People. The fact of the matter is, over the last four years we have witnessed an enormous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to multi bil...