Thought this was a good article. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/b...dily-eroding-just-ask-the-business-world.html
These have always made good headlines during the last 30 years. The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. We are running out of oil. The USD will not be the World reserve currency much longer.
Most countries tend to have the rich and the poor with very little in between. While there may be some sensationalism in these articles, the US had better be careful of becoming like those other countries.