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by mcguire 3135 days ago
"Some readers wondered if the 1 percent by wealth weren’t an entirely different group of people from the 1 percent by income. But there is substantial overlap: the Fed data suggests that about half of the top 1 percent of earners are also among the top 1 percent in the net worth category."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/economix/2012/01/17/measuri...