華爾街日報：28% 的最富1% 也擔心失業，21% 的高管怕一年內失業，25%的企業主怕一年內倒閉。最富1%中的38% 的擔心沒有足夠退休金。
Mitt Romney isn’t alone among the one-percenters worried about getting pink slips.
A new survey from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group shows that 28% of the top 1% of earners are worried about their jobs.
Fully 21% of the one-percenters who are corporate executives fear that they may lose their job over the next year, according to the survey.
Even one-percenters who own their own companies are worried. One quarter of those business owners say they worry that their companies may not survive over the next 12 months.
The 1% is also worried about its wealth. Fully 38% worry that they might run out of money at some point during their lives, which is why their average savings rate is 33%.
We can all hold the violins, of course. Next to 8% unemployment, a CEO worried about losing his multimillion-dollar paydays pales in comparison. And most Americans would never be lucky enough to save a third of their income.
But the anxieties of the elite have a real impact on the economy and recovery. Remember that the top 5% of earners account for more than a third of consumer outlays. If they’re hoarding cash and worried about their companies, they’re not hiring or spending–and thus, not creating jobs.
“America’s top One Percent income earners are holding their surplus cash under the nation’s collective mattress,” said Jim Taylor, vice chairman of the Harrison Group. “They have yet to recover their optimism for the economy, convinced we are still in a recession and concerned that the recession has more than a year to go before fundamental recovery. ”
He said a recovery in the optimism and investments of the wealthy may be two or three years off.
Why do you think the one percenters are so worried about their jobs and money?
