Business Week: The Rich Get (Much) Richer
AUGUST 8, 2005
IDEAS — OUTSIDE SHOT
By Steven Rattner
The Rich Get (Much) Richer
The top 1% take a fatter slice now than at any time since the 1920s
Hooray for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for returning the problems of class in America to the front page. Shame on the rest of us, passive witnesses to the emergence of a second Gilded Age, another Roaring Twenties, in which the fruits of economic success have gone not to the broad populace but to a slim sliver at the top. For this handful, life is a sweet m