List the four factors that have been identified as accounting for the remarkable increases in the number of wealthy families and the concentration of wealth
What will be an ideal response?
Many new fortunes were rooted in information technology, the Internet, finance, and other high growth sectors of the economy. Globalization generated new wealth and new opportunities. What has been described as “a river of money coursing around the world . . . looking for outlets” fed the growth of finance (Frank, 2007, p. 41). Since the 1980s, a generally rising stock market had swelled the fortunes of those who were able to invest in it. (Although the 2008–2009 stock market crash erased half the market value of the largest corporations, the market gradually rebounded to precrash levels. By late 2013, the inflation adjusted value of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 Index was 5 times what it had been in early 1980--a potential bonanza for anyone who had held stocks over that period.) Over this same period, declining tax rates on high incomes allowed affluent households to retain (and reinvest) more of what they made.
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