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Why Unlimited Wealth Is an Unassailable Advantage
In a poker game, or in the asset markets.
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Steve Roth
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March 2024

Biden Says Billionaires Pay an 8.2% Tax Rate. What Do Other Households Pay?
Let’s compare apples to apples here.
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Steve Roth

February 2024

The Bottom 80% of U.S. Households Persistently Dissaves, Spending more than Income.
Only the top 20% saves.
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Steve Roth
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January 2024

(Not) Thinking About Money
It's tempting to abolish the word entirely.
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Steve Roth
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December 2023

Total Income, and the Collapse of the Household Labor Share
The decline in workers’ share of the total pie is far more extreme than standard measures suggest.
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Steve Roth
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Question for SCOTUS: How Do Shareholders “Realize” Firms’ Retained Earnings??
Simplifying Moore vs United States
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Steve Roth
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How Redistribution Makes Us All Richer
Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics.
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Steve Roth

October 2023

John Maynard Keynes Doesn't Seem to Know What He Means by the Word “Spending”
Is investment spending “spending,” or isn't it?
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Steve Roth
Personal Income and Personal Saving Make More than 40% of Households’ Property Income…Invisible. Think Total Return.
Personal income, so Personal saving, ignore a huge part of Total Return — the income-from-assets measure used by every modern portfolio investor. Guess…
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Steve Roth

September 2023

Do We Wildly Underestimate GDP?
Our production minus our consumption doesn't come close to explaining our wealth accumulation. Do the asset markets know better?
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Steve Roth

August 2023

An American First. It’s the Law in WA: Accrued Holding Gains are Income
Excluding these massive ”economic flows” from income simply doesn't make any sense, in basic accounting terms.
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Steve Roth
Did Fed Rate Hikes Decrease Lending, Spending, and Inflation?
Reduced lending and borrowing since the hikes pales compared to far larger covid-era balance-sheet changes.
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Steve Roth
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