Ten percent of the U.S. population owns 81.8 percent of the real estate, 81.2 percent of the stock, and 88 percent of the bonds. One percent of the U.S. population owns sixty percent of the stock and forty percent of the total wealth. Two percent of U.S. income recipients owned 50 percent of all stocks and 39 percent of all bonds. Ten percent of American households own 72 percent of the total wealth.
Pension funds own almost a third of the total stock.
One half of one percent of the U.S. population owns 37 percent of all stock. In 1960 CEOs received 40 times the average worker's salary. In 1992 they received 157 times. The top one percent of Americans receive more income than the bottom 40 percent. A third was transactions within a single corporation.