This infographic compares the two economic periods after the Second World War in the United States. The Great Prosperity on the one hand, which lasted from 1947-79 and The Great Regression, which I called the Great Deregulation, which lasted from 1980 till now. Especially notice the differences in the connection between productivity growth and income growth and the wealth held by the top 1 percent earners.
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