A Foolish Take: America's Growing Income Inequality

A hedge fund manager is not the person one would expect to be talking about the growing divide between the rich and the poor, yet that's exactly what the chairman and chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates is doing.

In October, Ray Dalio wrote a post on LinkedIn, "Our Biggest Economic, Social, and Political Issue." The subject of the post was the growing wealth gap in the United States.

Data source: World Wealth and Income Database. Chart by author.

Source: Fool.com