Deceit.blog: #economy https://deceit.blog/tag/economy Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "economy". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:08 GMT 60 AI is making things better. It is also widening the wealth gap. https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. The top ten percent of American households own 87 percent of the stock held by anyone in the country. The bottom half own about one percent. That is not a soft estimate. It comes from the Federal Reserve's own Distributional Financial Accounts, updated every quarter and public to anyone who wants to… How much damage has Trump done to the working class? https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage Wed, 27 May 2026 20:00:14 GMT Explain. The first three years looked better than the ending. Unemployment fell to 3.5 percent by February 2020. Real median household income rose, poverty fell, and workers at the lower end of the labor market finally gained some bargaining power. Then the pandemic arrived, and about twenty two million payr…