www.wealth.distribution.usa.patrz.pl The top 1% of US households receive nearly as much income each year as the value of Germanys GDP; and they receive more income than all other nations GDP (individually, not cumulatively) but the GDPs of Japan, China, and the US. The financial wealth of the top 1% exceeds the value of the entire GDP of the EU (the worlds largest GDP in aggregate). Moreover, the top 1% could lose 90% of their financial wealth and still collectively have more wealth than all but each of the worlds top eight GDPs (US, China, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Brazil, and Italy). When one hears that wealth and income inequality is extreme in the US, I suspect many do not realize just how extreme it really is. Peak Oil (falling net energy and available net exports), government austerity, and the effects of population overshoot imply that wealth and income concentration will become even more extreme, affecting what remains of the professional middle class, who are largely dependent upon the ongoing growth of debt-money and government borrowing and spending.