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How "Wealthy" has this shit show made YOU?
Total U.S. household wealth increased $20 trillion from the end of 2019, a new report from ING (ING) found.
Despite the pandemic leaving thousands of businesses closed and millions unemployed, the level of household wealth actually increased during the past 18 months. The Federal Reserve Flow of Funds data for the first quarter of 2021 showed the U.S. household balance sheet standing at a grand total of $154.2 trillion, up from $134.3 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2019. Household wealth did fall to $127.8 trillion at the end of March 2020, but rebounded after the stimulus packages and relief payments were enacted.
Wealthy Americans have been the biggest recipient of the gains.“The biggest contribution to the financial wealth gains came from corporate equities and mutual funds due primarily to risk appetite rebounding and equity markets surging higher on unprecedented Federal Reserve and government stimulus,” the report said. “The same reasons led to strong performances for pension and life insurance funds.”
The report also found substantial economic gains made within low-income households. “Lower income households will also have contributed significantly to this increase,” the ING report found. “Government stimulus checks … combined with uprated and extended unemployment benefits contributed to huge increases in household incomes over the past 14 months.”
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ing-us-household-wealth-surged-20-tn-despite-pandemic-164438668.html