logging in or signing up Rich and Poor 36 Maurizio Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 408 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 24, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide1: Spikes in American Wealth In Wealth and Democracy Kevin Phillips argues that large spikes in wealth have been driven by three factors: New technologies Financial speculation Government policies supportive of free markets and the wealthySlide2: Spikes in American Wealth, cont. Three major waves of wealth: Gilded Age Roaring Twenties Third WaveSlide3: Gilded Age Post Civil War era New technologies: railroads, oil, and steel Government supportive of large corporations Mid-1800’s largest fortune was about $20 million, by 1900 John D. Rockefeller had worth of $1 billion By 1890 approximately half of the countries wealth was held by top 1%Slide4: Roaring Twenties Long expansion following WWI New technologies: radio, moving pictures, autos, and telephones Reduced taxes on dividends Number of millionaires rose from about 6,000 in 1921 to about 30,000 in 1929 Top 1 percent still held about half of the nation’s wealthSlide5: Post WWII Period Substantial amounts of wealth created but more widely distributed Substantial growth in manufacturing employment High marginal tax rates (maximum of 91%) Share of nation’s wealth held by top 1% fell to just over 20% in late 1970’sSlide6: Third Wave 1990’s to present New technology: information technology Half of America’s total wealth has been created over the last 10 years Substantial reductions in marginal tax rates in the 1980’s and Bush administration Substantial reductions in taxes on capital gains and dividends Top 1% holds about 33% of wealthSlide7: Creation of Financial Wealth Value of stock is based on expected future profits New technologies may create high expectations of profits Expectations of profits can create high valuations of stocks, individuals can become “paper millionaires” or realize the capital gain (liquidity event)Slide8: New York Times, March 29, 2007Slide9: Categories of New Rich Founders (Entrepreneurs who went public) Stakeholders (nonfounders who cash out when the company goes public) The acquired (founders who sell to other companies) Money movers (investment bankers, hedge fund managers) Salaried rich (stock options)Slide10: Wealth To be in the top 1% need to have net worth of $6 million To be in Forbes 400 you need to be a billionaire (Only needed $418 million in 1995)Slide11: Sources of Wealth If $10 million is defined as “rich”: About 60% reported wealth as equity or post-equity About 23% reported source of wealth as “executive” About 10% reported “inherited” About 3% are celebritiesSlide12: Investing Stocks – Ownership in company, returns are capital gains and dividends Bonds – Some type of IOU, returns are in difference between price and face valueSlide13: Investing Want maximum return for minimum risk! Power of compounding (rule of 70)Slide14: Returns on StocksSlide15: Returns on Bonds You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Rich and Poor 36 Maurizio Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 408 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 24, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide1: Spikes in American Wealth In Wealth and Democracy Kevin Phillips argues that large spikes in wealth have been driven by three factors: New technologies Financial speculation Government policies supportive of free markets and the wealthySlide2: Spikes in American Wealth, cont. Three major waves of wealth: Gilded Age Roaring Twenties Third WaveSlide3: Gilded Age Post Civil War era New technologies: railroads, oil, and steel Government supportive of large corporations Mid-1800’s largest fortune was about $20 million, by 1900 John D. Rockefeller had worth of $1 billion By 1890 approximately half of the countries wealth was held by top 1%Slide4: Roaring Twenties Long expansion following WWI New technologies: radio, moving pictures, autos, and telephones Reduced taxes on dividends Number of millionaires rose from about 6,000 in 1921 to about 30,000 in 1929 Top 1 percent still held about half of the nation’s wealthSlide5: Post WWII Period Substantial amounts of wealth created but more widely distributed Substantial growth in manufacturing employment High marginal tax rates (maximum of 91%) Share of nation’s wealth held by top 1% fell to just over 20% in late 1970’sSlide6: Third Wave 1990’s to present New technology: information technology Half of America’s total wealth has been created over the last 10 years Substantial reductions in marginal tax rates in the 1980’s and Bush administration Substantial reductions in taxes on capital gains and dividends Top 1% holds about 33% of wealthSlide7: Creation of Financial Wealth Value of stock is based on expected future profits New technologies may create high expectations of profits Expectations of profits can create high valuations of stocks, individuals can become “paper millionaires” or realize the capital gain (liquidity event)Slide8: New York Times, March 29, 2007Slide9: Categories of New Rich Founders (Entrepreneurs who went public) Stakeholders (nonfounders who cash out when the company goes public) The acquired (founders who sell to other companies) Money movers (investment bankers, hedge fund managers) Salaried rich (stock options)Slide10: Wealth To be in the top 1% need to have net worth of $6 million To be in Forbes 400 you need to be a billionaire (Only needed $418 million in 1995)Slide11: Sources of Wealth If $10 million is defined as “rich”: About 60% reported wealth as equity or post-equity About 23% reported source of wealth as “executive” About 10% reported “inherited” About 3% are celebritiesSlide12: Investing Stocks – Ownership in company, returns are capital gains and dividends Bonds – Some type of IOU, returns are in difference between price and face valueSlide13: Investing Want maximum return for minimum risk! Power of compounding (rule of 70)Slide14: Returns on StocksSlide15: Returns on Bonds