Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120920:14:53:00
>> what did it used to be? it had to be significantly lower than that. >> this is the 30th anniversary. 1982 it was $75 million. even if you go back 20 years to 1992, it was $265 million. we've taken a quantum leap especially in the last ten years. we had a big boom in the late 2000s. now we're at the highest level ever. the highest number to get on and the biggest aggregate net worth, $1.7 trillion for the top 400. >> it does play into the political conversation, the have and have nots, clearly the rich are getting richer. they have money for politics. obviously the coke brothers, charles and...