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The Myth of the K-Shaped Economy
The corporate press has a new obsession, the so-called K-shaped economy. This metaphor is meant to describe a system in which one group of people, represented by the top, inclining line of the K, watches their fortunes rise as the other group’s fortunes fall. The idea is that Americans who are alre...
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What happenedThe Myth of the K-Shaped Economy.
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