“You can’t eat GDP, and you can’t live in a rising stock market” is the striking phrase from NY Times’ Neil Irwin as he offers the most damning chart of the decline of America’s Economic Model (and dream). As we have explained vociferously, the most important thing to understand about today’s economy is: Around 1999, growth in the United States economy stopped translating to growth in middle-class incomes.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/20/2014.
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