One brutal sentence captures what a disaster money in America has become

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• One brutal sentence embodies the bleak state of money in America.
• "The bottom half of Americans combined have a negative net worth," Ben Steverman wrote in a recent Bloomberg article.
• This comment is based on the research of French economist Gabriel Zucman, a "wealth detective" who studies wealth inequality and finds the secret money stashes of the world's richest people.
• In the US, the rich are getting increasingly richer, while the middle class and the poor get poorer.
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One brutal sentence sums up the dismal state of wealth disparity in the US.

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