Where the wealth is, who holds it, how it's taken
Three pages, one set of underlying data. Inequality documents the distribution at a stock level (who has the wealth right now). Assets documents what each tier of the distribution actually holds and how those holdings are taxed. Extraction documents the flow side: how economic surplus has been redirected from labour to capital across the post-1973 period that produced today's distribution. Sources are the Fed Distributional Financial Accounts, the Survey of Consumer Finances, Saez-Zucman wealth series, EPI productivity-pay data, and FRED wage-share series.
Inequality
A live distributional score from the Fed's DFA series plus 14 interactive components covering the post-1980 wealth-share inversion. The K-shaped recovery, the seconds-of-Bezos visualisation, the revolution-comparison framing, and the second-estate inheritance mechanics. The page that makes "the middle class disappearing" feel like a measurement instead of a slogan.
- Top-1%, bottom-50%, and middle-40% wealth-share charts
- Net-worth calculator: where you sit in the distribution
- Tax-era comparator: pre-1981 vs post-1981 effective rates
- Buy-borrow-die: how the top 0.1% avoid realising income
Assets
What people across the US distribution actually hold and how it is taxed. The bottom 50% holds most of its net worth in home equity and vehicles; the top 10% holds most of its net worth in financial assets that compound and pass through estate tax-advantaged. The calculators make the asymmetry concrete.
- Wealth-tier composition: what each decile actually holds
- 30-year-returns explorer: stocks vs bonds vs real estate vs cash
- Tax-treatment calculator: same income, different income type
- Access-gates audit: accredited-investor barriers, 401(k) coverage gaps
Extraction
The wage-share-of-GDI live score plus eight components covering how economic surplus has shifted from labour to capital across fifty years. Antitrust collapse, productivity-pay divergence, household-debt substitution for wage growth, monopoly tax. The flow side of the same numbers the inequality and assets pages document at a stock level.
- Productivity-vs-wages divergence post-1973
- Monopoly-tax calculator: what concentration costs households
- CEO-to-worker ratio slider: 21:1 in 1965, ~290:1 today
- Antitrust enforcement collapse 1980s onward
Why these are clustered. Inequality is the static picture (the stock). Extraction is the dynamic picture (the flow). Assets is the composition picture (what the stock is held in). The three are different camera angles on the same numbers; reading them together makes the distributional system legible. The post-1980 inversion shows up across all three.
Where to go from here. The markets cluster documents what households are told to do with their savings against this distribution. The fed page documents how QE and rate decisions redistribute asset prices. The citizens united page documents the campaign-finance architecture that has prevented redistributive policy.