Inequality (and Irrationality) in the Face

If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. Cecil Rhodes 1895
Land of the free, home of the poor on the PBS Newshour.
Summary: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S. wealth, as Paul Solman found out as part of a Making Sen$e series on economic inequality.
Dan Ariely’s website.

Land of the Free PBS on Inequality in the US. (just the soundtrack).