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US Household Wealth at All-Time High

US Household Wealth at All-Time High
The "Painted Ladies," a row of historical Victorian homes, underscore the San Francisco skyline in a view from Alamo Square. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
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Even as a global pandemic is raging, American households, as a group, are the richest they have ever been—driven by increases in value in real estate and other non-financial assets, and despite a 7.5 percent decline in the value of financial assets since December 2019, according to Federal Reserve data.

Tim Shaler
Tim Shaler
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Tim Shaler is a professional investor and economist based in Southern California. He is a regular columnist for The Epoch Times, where he exclusively provides some of his original economic analysis.
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