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    "title": "535 People Control 23% Of The Nation's Wealth",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-01-13 17:58:51 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>In cities all over the country, protesters are drawing the battle line between the top 1% and the rest of us in the bottom 99%. Too much economic power is in too few hands.</p>\n<p>It's unfortunate indeed that the Occupiers have so far ignored the country's most egregious concentration of economic power.</p>\n<p>In 2010, a tiny cabal of 535 individuals -- just 0.00017% of the population -- spent $3.5 trillion, or about 23% of the $14.5 trillion U.S. economy. That leaves 77% for the other 99.99983% of us.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I don't expect Congress to do much about this.  Via <em><a href=\"http://news.investors.com/Article/595681/201112221818/occupy-congress.htm\">Congress: The Country's Most Egregious Concentration Of Economic Power - Investors.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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