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What Crash? Number Of Middle-Income Earners In Stocks Drops By 16% [Chart]

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Over the last six years, with some help of the loosest monetary policy in history, the S&P 500 tripled in value from its lows during the Financial Crisis. Then in the last week, U.S. markets have been up and down like a roller coaster with surprising daily movements of historical proportions in both directions. Currently, at our time of publication, the DJIA is down -7% year-to-date.

What Crash? Number Of Middle-Income Earners In Stocks Drops By 16%

Source: Visual Capitalist

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