    Sentence..1: "Yet, despite. the."stock ‘market.  boom of: thé -1990s,:.mary: households : have:  accumislated. little, if any,. wealth: (see figure  1.3),and ‘half~-of- American. ‘households: did  not-owin-stocks as of 1998.    Sentence’ 2: The sto€k markétboom of the  1990s. led to explosive wealth accumulation in  most‘ households.’