The Monday Mashup : How the Q2 2012 "Recovery" Became a Masterclass in Wealth Extraction

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https://thehickoryhound.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-monday-mashup-how-q2-2012-recovery.html

The official story said the economy recovered in 2012. The data tells a much darker tale. Between 2007 and 2010, the median net worth of American families fell by 40%, resetting middle-class wealth back to 1992. Meanwhile, the top 1% captured an incredible 93% of all real income growth, and Wall Street built a $230 trillion derivatives casino. This wasn’t a standard business cycle—it was a permanent structural realignment. Read our latest breakdown to see how the policy choices, hidden inflation, and low-wage shifts of 2012 directly created the economic bottlenecks we are living through today.

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