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Inflation has become so rampant that a six-figure household income has become merely the 50% mark for states like California. The least-surprising data: D.C. sucks out more money than anyone else, whereas Mississippi has taken its usual position in last place.
When I was a kid, “millionaire” was synonymous with “rich“. These days, it merely means “able to pay bills on time.”
Only seven years ago, there had NEVER been a SINGLE American company that had ever had a market cap worth over a trillion dollars. Thanks to the Federal Reserve throwing us $38 trillion in debt, values have inflated massively, and multi-trillion dollar companies have become almost commonplace. Of the eleven members of this club, nine of them are in America, and every single one of them is high-tech.
