K-Shaped Economy: Why Asset Owners Win and Wage Earners Don’t

Labor share of GDP hit a 1947 low while asset owners kept compounding wealth. This is the mechanism behind the K-shaped economy, sourced from the BLS, CBO, and the Fed, and the one appreciating asset class still open to a saver with no brokerage account.
The Cantillon Effect: Why Money Printing Makes Some People Rich First

New money doesn’t reach everyone at once: banks and asset holders get it first, wage earners get it last, after prices have already moved. Using Fed balance-sheet data and its own Distributional Financial Accounts, this piece traces exactly how that sequence played out from 2008 to 2022, and why physical gold and silver sit outside the mechanism entirely.
