# 10% of Americans own 88% of Equities - Unbelievable but True 📉💸

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- **Канал:** UKspreadbetting
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQQTYlZ13G8
- **Дата:** 19.04.2025
- **Длительность:** 1:41
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/53011

## Описание

📉💸 The Harsh Wealth Gap: Vacations for Some, Food Banks for Others 🍽✈️  
On January 28, 2025, Scott Bessent was sworn in as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

Here’s the reality no one likes to talk about:

🔟 The top 10% of Americans own 88% of the stock market

4️⃣0️⃣ The next 40% owns the other 12%

5️⃣0️⃣ The bottom half? Mostly debt — credit cards, auto loans, and rising rent.

Scott Bessent is the United States secretary of the treasury since 2025

📊 Massive Inequality in Stock Ownership: The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, while the bottom 50% are burdened with debt, relying on credit cards, auto loans, and renting homes.

💡 Startling Contrasts in Daily Life: Despite a record number of Americans traveling to Europe in Summer 2024, food banks also saw unprecedented demand, highlighting the dual reality of American life.

🧺 Food Insecurity Among Working Families: Food banks report that it's no longer just the homeless or unemployed; working families

## Транскрипт

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the distribution of equities across households. The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities, 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% bottom 50 has debt. They have credit card bills. They rent their homes. They have auto loans. And we've got to give them some relief. that I was struck by the statistic from last year. That's the message right there. Just as a bystander, I'm like, "Wow. " Okay. All right. Or that I I like the examples. And I was really struck by two different statistics last year. Summer of 2024, Americans took more European vacations than they had in history. summer of 2024, more Americans were using food banks than they ever have in history. I went into two food banks that near my hometown to ask what's the story and they said, you know, it really takes for a lot of people it's a loss of dignity to walk in a food bank. And but they were seeing something a new phenomenon that it wasn't their traditional clientele. Wasn't people who had lost their homes. It was weren't wasn't people out on the street. These were working families who could no longer $100 at the grocery store that basket of groceries every week. They were missing five, six, seven things and they were coming to the food bank to top up. So like that's not a great America. Record European vacation.