[lbo-talk] Wealth distribution

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 15 08:42:25 PDT 2011


On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:33 AM, James Leveque wrote:


> Does the bear market account for the small bump in income amongst the middle
> and bottom because companies were shifting the money out of the stock market
> and back into wages - or is that too optimistic?

They happened at the same time - the cyclical peak in 2000-2001. If this is from the same CBO XLS that I have, then all levels moved roughly in tandem - rising through 2001, falling into 2003, then rising again.

Doug



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