Wages near century low leaves regular folks behind. Equity concentration tops past bubbles. System rigged for asset owners not paycheck people.
A good counterfeiter's always alert to opportunities to flood the market.
The Fed did not waste Covid. https://t.co/fhLwzF36o7
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) July 22, 2026
12% chance the U.S. enters a recession by the end of the year. https://t.co/jH2VLYwHO9
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 22, 2026
Historic record: Equities as a percentage of financial assets are breaking record after record.
After prolonged bull markets, FOMO and greed tend to take over, but that usually coincides with major market tops.
Have you taken some chips off the table? pic.twitter.com/4nOXYFdG8R
— BraVoCycles Newsletter (@BraVoCycles) July 19, 2026
The proportion of wages and salaries in US gross domestic income (GDI) is down to ~43%, near the lowest since records began in 1929
byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts
“Gross domestic income measures the total income earned across the economy, including wages, corporate profits, and investment income.
This metric has been in a long-term decline since peaking at ~52% in the 1940s.
By comparison, between the 1940s and the 1960s, this percentage never fell below 48%.
In other words, a larger proportion of economic income is now flowing to corporate profits and investment income, rather than pay workers.
The gap between corporate profits and labor income keeps widening.”