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Laura Beck

If Every American Owned Equal Shares of the Stock Market, How Much Wealth Would Each Person Hold?

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The U.S. stock market generates enormous wealth, but that wealth concentrates heavily at the top. What if it didn’t? What if every American owned an equal share of publicly traded companies? It’s a wild thought exercise and one we were curious about. And well, it turns out, when you dive deeper, the math reveals just how much wealth inequality permeates this part of American finances.

Learn More: If Wealth Was Evenly Distributed Across America, How Much Money Would Every Person Have?

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