The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets.

Those consumers now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.

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  • Snot Flickerman
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    788 hours ago

    They’re literally trying to build an economy that starves regular people out of it. They don’t care anymore, they want it all.

    A whole ass country full of fucking Veruca Salts.

    • @Raiderkev
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      45 hours ago

      Well, there’s 2 Verucas running the white House right now. I’m sure they care about fixing this issue.