Comments on: Sources of Income for Top 0.01 Percent http://visualizingeconomics.com/2007/05/06/sources-of-income-for-top-001-percent/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Liquidity Crunch http://visualizingeconomics.com/2007/05/06/sources-of-income-for-top-001-percent/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Liquidity Crunch Wed, 09 May 2007 23:37:13 +0000 http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2007/05/06/sources-of-income-for-top-001-percent/#comment-165 I think the two most interesting graphs in this post are wage income and dividend income. Wage income is high and reflects the severe detachment of executive pay from fundamentals. Meanwhile, average dividend yields are historically low and practically insignificant. Regular investors are left out to dry while corporate raiders are compensated egregiously. It's strange that in such a climate, American ownership of stocks is historically high. I wonder how long it will be before a purging brings corporate governance into grace. I think the two most interesting graphs in this post are wage income and dividend income.

Wage income is high and reflects the severe detachment of executive pay from fundamentals. Meanwhile, average dividend yields are historically low and practically insignificant. Regular investors are left out to dry while corporate raiders are compensated egregiously. It’s strange that in such a climate, American ownership of stocks is historically high.

I wonder how long it will be before a purging brings corporate governance into grace.

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