Wall Street really doesn’t affect the average American anymore. Today it’s down dramatically, at other times it goes up. Meanwhile, the average income of most Americans is shrinking, and the gap between the richest and the poorest continues to widen.
Instead of the Dow Industrial Average or the S&P 500, we need a “Main Street” index changed daily to give REAL people a benchmark of how they’re doing.
Source for charts: It’s the Inequality, Stupid: 11 charts that explain everything that’s wrong with America – Mother Jones
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