Here is the best I could find to figure the gain in wealth over the period. Most charts like to talk in percentages, not absolute dollar amounts so the calculations are mine.

Table 3. Mean Wealth Holdings and Income by Wealth or Income Class, 1983-2001   
(In thousands, 2001 dollars)               

	Top	Next	Next	Next	Top	4th	3rd	Bottom
Variable	1.0%	4.0%	5.0%	10.0%	20.0%	20.0%	20.0%	40.0%	All
A. Net Worth
1983	7,796	1,289	560.8	302.8	939.3	145.2	60.3	5.1	231.0
2001	12,692	2,453	937.4	490.3	1,604.7	215.3	75.0	2.9	380.1
% change	62.8	90.2	67.2	61.9	70.8	48.3	24.4	-43.6	64.6
% of gain	32.8	31.2	12.6	12.6	89.2	9.4	2.0	-0.6	100.0
B. Financial Wealth
1983	6,722	984	384.6	172.4	715.3	61.9	13.3	(6.9)	156.7
2001	14,075	1,833	669.8	301.5	1,388.4	102.7	21.5	(10.1)	298.5
% change	109.4	86.2	74.2	74.9	94.1	65.8	61.4	46.1	90.5
% of gain	51.9	23.9	10.1	9.1	95.0	5.7	1.2	-0.9	101.0
C. Income
1982	655	169	105.1	78.9	132.2	55.2	36.1	14.7	51.0
2000	1,117	224	139.7	102.3	186.8	69.3	44.3	17.9	67.2
% change	70.5	32.5	33.0	29.7	41.3	25.6	22.7	22.0	31.9
% of gain	28.4	13.5	10.6	14.4	67.0	17.4	10.1	7.9	102.3

Source: own computations from the 1983 and 2001 Surveys of Consumer Finances.  
For the computation of percentile shares of net worth, households are ranked according to their net worth;
for percentile shares of financial wealth, households are ranked according to their financial wealth; and
for percentile shares of income, households are ranked according to their income.
Source:
Levy Institute

Wealth increase over the period:
Households in 2000 is about 106,000,000
So top 1% = 1,060,000
Population 1983 234,000,000
Population 2000 276,000,000
Households in 1983 is about  90,000,000
Wealth in 1983 is 900,000 X 7,796,000 = 7,016,400,000,000
Wealth in 2001 is 1,060,000 X 12,692,000 = 13,453,520,000,000
Gain in wealth = 6,437,120,000,000

So, if I have done this correctly, the top 1% got about $6 billion wealthier in approximately 20 years. Not even close to the increase in the size of the deficit. Next conjecture will concern the size of the military spending over the period...

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