Hey Folks, You Dug Your Debt-Filled Grave, Now Lie in It: Books

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Hedrick Smith is a dogged assembler of data. Practically every page of his “Who Stole the American Dream?” crawls with numbers, statistics and percentages like the following:

“The top 0.1 percent -- about 315,000 people out of 315 million Americans -- garner roughly half of all capital gains in the U.S.”