America Has Surpassed the Gilded Age
The guest describes unprecedented concentration of wealth
How To Change The World Podcast
Aug 20, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 17 segments
Income inequality in America has reached levels not seen since the Gilded Age - and by some measures beyond it. The top 1% of Americans now hold more wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined. Our…
Brian BolandGuest
Rostam ZafariHost
A lot of what we talked about today was how endowments or foundations or how they can get involved in this.

For someone listening to this conversation who wants to do something about it, who has capital to deploy, or they're just trying to better understand what they can do, where would they start?

Yeah, I mean, look, there's a million different ways I'll kind of move from some things that anyone can do, like Boston Impact Initiative.

I think that's a great one for people to look at how they can participate with them.

I think when you look at ways to deploy the rest of your capital, there's things like municipal bonds that Clarion Call Capital is doing.

They're actually looking at the communities that actually need the capital in muni bonds to build things.

They're like one of the coolest, most boring in the universe things that you could buy that do really amazing work building communities and important communities across the United States.

A lot of what we talked about today was how endowments or foundations or how they can get involved in this.

For someone listening to this conversation who wants to do something about it, who has capital to deploy, or they're just trying to better understand what they can do, where would they start?

Yeah, I mean, look, there's a million different ways I'll kind of move from some things that anyone can do, like Boston Impact Initiative.

I think that's a great one for people to look at how they can participate with them.

I think when you look at ways to deploy the rest of your capital, there's things like municipal bonds that Clarion Call Capital is doing.

They're actually looking at the communities that actually need the capital in muni bonds to build things.

They're like one of the coolest, most boring in the universe things that you could buy that do really amazing work building communities and important communities across the United States.
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