Part of the growing divide between the rich and the average worker can also be traced back to where these households derive their wealth—namely, from their exposure to the booming stock market of 2025.
The K-shaped economy has come for your wages, as lower-income Americans sees their gains plummet to the weakest rate in a decade
November 10, 2025
‘Yikes’: Top investment bank looks under the hood of the economy and finds ‘the labor market doesn’t look that good’
BY NICK LICHTENBERG AND EVA ROYTBURG
November 10, 2025
“At the bottom, this mindset develops where they recognize that they may never win, but that doesn't mean, ‘I can't help you…
We've heard the labor market is in a "low-hire, low-fire" kind of environment. The "low hire" part seems to be true, the other…
The K-shaped economy is as apparent than ever and isn't going away anytime soon, economists say.
“We had that kind of two-year period where the bottom was catching up and that talk of the K-shape went away,” said TSLombard…
Some households earning $160,000 or more a year fall on the “thin ice” side of the K-shaped economy, a new report finds.
Upper-income Americans are doing better, while low- and moderate-income households are falling behind. Why does that matter?
