“…In my own research, I have explored the class dimensions of the domestic ownership of the US public debt (Hager, 2014(Hager, , 2015(Hager, , 2016; see also Tett, 2013). Most importantly, what my research indicates is that inequality in ownership of the public debt mirrors wealth inequality more generally: when the wealth share of the top percentile of households and large corporations increases or decreases, so, too, does their share of the public debt.…”