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Robin Hood, Beware: The Rich Get Poorer

Financial crisis hits US wealthiest hard, reduces inequalities

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 27, 2008 1:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – Barack Obama and John McCain have sparred over the country’s income gap, but that gap is shrinking rapidly, Robert Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal. Financial crises always knock the rich down a peg, and this one is no different. One economist predicts... Read full story »

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Robin Hood, Beware: The Rich Get Poorer

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