There is a general wisdom spread among economists that the poor struggling with debt relative to the wealthy. A new report from Capital Economics, however, takes a different tact. US Chief Economist Paul Ashworth disputes this notion, asking and attempting to answer the question in a new report titled: “Are the poor drowning in debt as the rich get richer?” [klarman] Top income brackets accumulate more wealth, but they also have more debt, increasing debt-to-Income ratio for the elite, also The shrinking middle class over the last two decades, where incomes have been stagnant while the wealthiest in society take…
It Is Not Just The Poor Or Middle Class Which Is Taking On Lots Of Debt
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.