The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion
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According to the new data of the Federal Reserve, the stock market rally continued to benefit the largest investors, while the first 10% of Americans added $ 5 trillion to their reserves.
According to the FED, the total wealth of the first 10% – with more than $ 2 million – reached 113 trillion dollars in the first quarter in the second quarter. The increase is followed by three years of growth for those at the summit, and the first 10% has been over 40 trillion dollars since 2020.
According to the FED data, all reserve groups gained last year, and the last half of the Americans increased by 6% in the last 12 months. Nevertheless, growth was the fastest for the top ones. The first 1% saw that their reserves increased by 4 trillion dollars last year. Their reserves hit 52 trillion dollars in the second quarter.
The first 0.1% saw that their reserves increased by 10% last year. The pandemi saw that the best 0.1%or at least $ 46 million in the net value of $ 46 million has increased to almost $ 23 trillion.
Despite the faster growth recently, the total shares of the rise of the upper level have been quite stable for decades. The first 1% in 2000 compared to 28%, in the second quarter, the total households held 29% of his deying. The first 10% of the total households kept 67% of the total household, while the lower 90% kept 33%.
This year at the summit, the biggest driving force of his gains was the stock market. The value of the first 10% of the corporate equity and investment fund shares increased from $ 39 trillion to $ 44 trillion last year. The first 10% of Americans have more than 87% of corporate equity and investment fund shares.
The population of ultra -rich is growing rapidly. According to a new report from Altrata, the number of ultra -net valuable Americans or more than $ 30 million or more, increased by 21% last year after 6.5% in the first half of 2025. Currently, there are individuals with 208,090 ultra net value in the United States, which make up 41% of the world sum.
The increasing Return above has created a more fork consumer economy and accounts for an increasing share of wealthy general expenditures. According to Mark Zandi in Marky’s Analytics, consumers in the first 10% of the income distribution constituted 49.2% of consumer expenditures in the second quarter, and the data marked the highest level since 1989.
“K-Figure Economy” has performed well according to broad economic measures such as GDP and consumption. Nevertheless, the increasing dependence on a small consumers strip at the top is risky.
Zandi said that a deep and long -term decrease in the stock market, which directs almost all the earnings of his reserves at the summit, could send wider fluctuations through the economy.
“The economy is greatly strengthened by spending the extraordinary good to do with the increasing value of stock portfolios.” He said. “The rich (extreme) precious stock market, for whatever reason and will see more red in stock signs than green, they will be rapidly more cautious in their expenditures by creating a serious threat to the fragile economy.”
