A reminder: For the next few weeks, most posts will be comics. You're welcome.
Some context for the financial doom-and-gloomers (and more and more and more, the latter showing how the US is in the best place any country has ever been):
Excerpt:
The collective net worth of American households reached roughly $66 trillion by the end of 2007. The 2008 crash wiped out $11 trillion in wealth, falling to $55 trillion by early-2009.
Today, Americans are worth more than $154 trillion (and yes this is netted out for debts). We’ve gained $100 trillion over the past 15 years. ...
While the stock market and overall net worth numbers bottomed in the first quarter of 2009, the net worth for the bottom 50% kept falling into 2011. From a high of $1.5 trillion before the crash, the net worth for the bottom 50% plunged all the way to $236 billion by Q1 of 2011.
From there, it climbed all the way back to $1.9 trillion by early 2020, then went up another level during the pandemic, hitting a record of more than $3.8 trillion in the latest reading.
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