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Far the largest share participate passively in the market through their 401(k)s, i.r.a.s and other retirement savings accounts. study authored from the national bureau of economic research showed most stock holdings are held by the rich. the top 20% of households by wealth owned 92% of stocks back in 2013 while 80% of all americans put together own the remaining 8%. when the president logs a whopping 20% gain in the dow since his election, that is mostly helping america's wealthy, not the wider american public. now, the president and others will argue the wealth effect from the market can tric...

>> you greatly increase corporate earnings and that increases the stock market and the wealth effect is highly e, spending. >> declining individual tax rates cause people to spend more and -- >> we don't know that. we do not know that. >> i thought supply-side evidence from ronald reagan proved that? >> my friend of many years, the fact that one thing happened and another thing happened does not mean first thing caused the second thing. heather: 8 you are being fast and loose with this. there is no doubt revenue came in, doesn't think it became because of tax cuts. what i will agree with is wh...

Thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the personal story seeing many tonight. as you heard earlier when i talked with donald trump, the stock market is in terrible shape. and illegal immigration continues to drive mr. trump's campaign. joining us now from washington, charles krauthammer is following both stories. now, do you think the stock market and the soft economy he in general in the u.s.a. will hurt the democrats in the upcoming presidential election? >> look, if it stops where it is now. it will have no effect whatsoever. if it continues into a crash, something like 2008, the...

Distorted. we are looking at a lack of lower-end home inventory, the homes that investors have been buying. there's been no new construction for those homes, and frankly a lot of the folks when we hear about being underwater are in that bucket too. >> what it tends to be an issue that is ongoing? again, all all sorts of explanations and yours were dead on. would you worry that it's sort of causing a bottle neck? >> well, clearly it's a problem. first of all, everyone needs a place to live. rental prices are going up and we all benefit from the side effect of high home ownership rates like the ...

Why is this attitude surprising and what went wrong? it's simple. china is getting richer. and its women are getting more educated. according to the cia the five countries with the highest birth rates in the world include the likes of niger, mali and uganda. a clear correlation these countries have some of the lowest per capita incomes in the world. the average income in niger is $800 a year. now let's flip this. the five countries with the lowest birth rates in the world include monaco, hong kong, singapore and japan. look at their average incomes. china clearly aspires to be in monaco and si...