Yet, despite the stock market boom of the 1990s, many households have accumulated little, if any, wealth (see figure 1.3), and half of American households did not own stocks as of 1998.
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The benefits of the stock market boom mostly went to investors since at least half of American households owned no stocks in 1998.
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