"No other image, in my opinion, so succinctly captures the skyrocketing fortunes of America's super-rich than the chart below, included in an October working paper by economists Emmanuel Saez, of the University of California Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman, of the London School of Economics and Political Science (who you may know as some of Thomas Piketty's favorite academic bandmates). In 2012, the top 0.1 percent of households lay claim to 22 percent of U.S. wealth, up from about 7 percent in 1979. Or, as I put it when I wrote about a rough draft of their findings in April, one-thousandth of the country now owns more than one-fifth of its wealth." - Todd Hoff