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Quote for the Day:

If only history books could chuckle. The middle class has often been pulled into the "money class," but frequently to be relieved of some of its savings. All of the great speculative evanescences – seventeenth-century tulip mania, the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles, the British and American railway manias of the nineteenth century, the 1920s and the conjoined 1980s and 1990s – achieved that dubious distinction by reaching far below the top 1 percent of the population, the usual owner of 50 to 70 percent of national financial assets, and luring investment from the next 5, 10, or 20 percent.

Kevin Phillips. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich. Broadway Books/Random House. © 2002.