08/01/2014 - The Typical Household During Era of FINANCIAL REPRESSION Now Worth a Third Less
New money is being re-directed to pay increasing debt loads as corporate profits come primarily at the expense of reduced income growth while inflation crushes real disposable income.
A study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation.
DECLINING FINANCIAL WEALTH FOR MOST AMERICANS SINCE 2001
“The housing bubble basically hid a trend of declining financial wealth at the median that began in 2001” — Fabian T. Pfeffer, the University of Michigan professor who is lead author of the Russell Sage Foundation study.
“For households at the median level of net worth, much of the damage has occurred since the start of the last recession in 2007. Until then, net worth had been rising for the typical household, although at a slower pace than for households in higher wealth brackets. But much of the gain for many typical households came from the rising value of their homes. Exclude that housing wealth and the picture is worse: Median net worth began to decline even earlier.”
