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A second Gilded Age?

The stats on our financial success keep coming in daily, it’s hard to keep up.

The conclusion: We are doing marvelously.

Admire this graph, which draws on the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office. Notice how our income has grown at a rate of nearly 300 percent since 1979. Three cheers for the 1%!

According to the Huffington Post piece, America is entering a Second Gilded Age.

Us? Joining the ranks of Vanderbilt and Frick, Rockefeller and Carnegie?

Aw shucks, Huff. Now’s that flattery.

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Reply to Charges: Do we pay the police?

Recently, the Occupied Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2011, reported that JP Morgan Chase, a prominent member of our club, gave $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. Do we pay the police to protect the interests and assets of the 1%? Of course we do: look at those angry people down on Liberty Plaza! Get a job!

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