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</html><description>Doug Short at Global Economic Intersection has a must-read post that pulls together some Census Report data on US incomes since 1967 and draws some conclusions. He looks first at real, rather than nominal, incomes, and shows how income in the top 5% and top quintile have grown faster than for the rest of the population</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-shot-2012-09-24-at-4.33.55-AM.png</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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