Yeah agreed I would like to see back to the robber baron era and particularly around the run up to the crash in 29 and the aftermath of that. It seems like every time there’s a big crash you see a huge movement of capital siphoned up into the upper % in the aftermath.
By record share they mean that there has not been a time prior to now in which they’ve owned a percentage as high as they currently do.
The graph in the article makes that pretty easy to understand.
I really wish it went back to 1900 though.
Yeah agreed I would like to see back to the robber baron era and particularly around the run up to the crash in 29 and the aftermath of that. It seems like every time there’s a big crash you see a huge movement of capital siphoned up into the upper % in the aftermath.