Americans can see vast differences in wealth all around them. It’s “a truth universally acknowledged,” the British news magazine Economist noted in 2020. But former senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and mathematical economist John F. Early in their 2022 book, The Myth of American Inequality, assert that these are illusions.
Americans can see vast differences in…
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