rp...America was raped of its wealth by a handful of thugs, using the legal laws set in place by this, and previous governments at that time...The Glass Steigal act was put in place after the 1929 raping, which forbid banks to do banking investments, which took the country into depression in 1929... Robert Rubin of citicorp, then treasury secretary, was instrumental in getting Bill Clinton, President to repeal the Glass - Stegal act, and let the banks again to investment banking... and of course in time , the same results in the stock market showed up in 2008, with the great recession.. as a result, the wealth is concentrated in the very top incomes with billionaires walking the streets...what we are seeing now is a world wide catastrophe of homelessness, wages not keeping up with inflation, rising suicides, millennials not having a decent future and not spending as previous generations did.. hence, store closings, and some of the biggest institutions filing bk... this is the future, rich and poor, and that is not a long term positive prospect for stability in this country... Lodas