While wealthy Americans hail a booming stock market, the rest of us worry about rising inflation and people struggling to make ends meet<\/p>\n
In case you\u2019re not familiar with the concept of the K-shaped economy<\/a>, it\u2019s an important idea that captures a lot about Trump\u2019s America. Wealthy Americans are represented by the line of the K that angles sharply upward to the right, while the line of the K that dips downward represents non-rich Americans and the difficulties they face.<\/p>\n The economy\u2019s K-shape has been growing worse in recent months, in large part because of Donald Trump\u2019s policies. The wealthy people\u2019s line is climbing further upward, while the line for the non-wealthy \u2013 the vast majority of Americans \u2013 has fallen further.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While wealthy Americans hail a booming stock market, the rest of us worry about rising inflation and people struggling to make ends meet In case you\u2019re not familiar with the concept of the K-shaped economy, it\u2019s an important idea that captures a lot about Trump\u2019s America. Wealthy Americans are represented by the line of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}