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The K-Shaped Economy: Why Inequality Defines Growth in 2025

  The K-Shaped Economy Is Here The Divide Isn't a Glitch. It's the Definitive Feature of Our Time. The global economy is pulling off a stunning , cruel contradiction : it's booming and breaking at the same time. Markets soar. Tech giants print record cash. AI commands impossible valuations.  Yet rent is crushing. Debt mounts. Stable careers feel like relics.  Some ride rockets; most patch rafts . This is the K-shaped economy —a recovery that rips society apart instead of lifting it together.  The wealthy accelerate on assets and leverage . The middle class falls behind , fighting inflation and inertia . The shock was 2020. The aftershock is now. Picture the letter " K ." One arm shoots skyward. The other slopes down.  This isn't a V-shaped rebound where everyone recovers together. It's a structural fracture splitting the economy into two trajectories . You're already living inside it . To navigate it, you need to see exactly what each arm looks like—...