I found the last sentence here most astonishing. Zucman and Saez’s latest estimates show that the top 0.1% of taxpayers—about 170,000 families in a country of

I found the last sentence here most astonishing. Zucman and Saez’s latest estimates show that the top 0.1% of taxpayers—about 170,000 families in a country of 330 million people—control 20% of American wealth, the highest share since 1929. The top 1% control 39% of U.S. wealth, and the bottom 90% have only 26%. The bottom half of Americans combined have a negative net worth.