Adam Taggart: Why Is America's Middle Class Disappearing?

Do you struggle to get ahead, but it seems like you never can? Do you sometimes wonder why the cost of living is so high and prices just keep climbing? Are you a senior who can’t afford to retire because you can’t live off your fixed-income savings? Are you a millennial who can’t afford to buy a home? Is “middle class” now starting to feel the same as lower class? Whatever your income, are you having to work harder and harder to just stay in the same place? What’s going on? Who is to blame, and what can we do about it?

Adam Taggart is the President and Co-Founder of Peak Prosperity. He wears many hats, but his basic job is to handle the business side of things so that his fellow co-founder, Chris Martenson, is free to think and write.

Adam is an experienced Silicon Valley internet executive and Stanford MBA. Prior to partnering with Chris (Adam was General Manager of our earlier site, ChrisMartenson.com), he was a Vice President at Yahoo!, a company he served for nine years. Before that, he did the 'startup thing' (mySimon.com, sold to CNET in 2001). As a fresh-faced graduate from Brown University in the early 1990s, Adam got a first-hand look at all that was broken with Wall Street as an investment banking analyst for Merrill Lynch.