real estate expert ron silverman calculates the cost you are talking in recent years probably every year transferred hundreds of. of dollars hundreds of billions hundreds of billions of dollars billions. from the pockets of the poor. who are far better positioned. show called victims to go the upper one percent of the population own thirty percent of america's returns to wealth that is dividends interest and capital gains five years ago they'd raise their proportion from thirty seven percent to fifty seven percent and today it's estimated that the upper one percent of america's population. has almost seventy percent of the returns to. the percent seventy percent that's huge yes it is it's unprecedented it's essentially it makes america look like a third world banana republic. national park having to lobby the barrister. ironically bear stearns was also the billions of dollars they received in the bailout did not go to the company's cheer holders but to goes to. it was the deal that ultimately saved the creditors to bear stearns by. i forcing it into j.p. morgan at the expense of equity h