Are the Rich Getting Richer?

“The rich are getting richer,” Arnott said. “Vastly so. But, it’s never the same people for long.” The name Rockefeller, for example, has been synonymous with vast generational wealth going back more than a century. You will not, however, find any Rockefellers on today’s Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, Arnott observed. “After a scant 50–100 years, there are no Carnegies or Mellons or Fricks,” he said, “and certainly no Morgans, Vanderbilts, Astors, or du Ponts, where the fortunes date back to the nineteenth century.” Review PDF Via