Tag: income

The fact that the richest Americans are grabbing such a big slice of the pie isn’t exactly breaking news. What is news is that Wall Street is getting nervous about it. Moody’s Investors Service, a private watchdog for the federal government’s fiscal soundness, has concluded that inequality has reached the point that it threatens a…

Most families have relatively little money and median income has been stagnant. If you hang out in the Northeast and talk to financial types and academics who worry about pensions and retirement income, it is easy to get lulled into the notion that the mass affluent – the upper middle of the income distribution –…