Dan Ludwinski of the Cornell University Department of Economics explains what the Trump graph shows. It doesn't match the graph Trump tweeted. "The majority of these assets are excess reserve balances — money deposited by commercial banks and held by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve (naturally) has lots of data on money in circulation, including this chart of print orders by year since 1995. The creator of these graphs uses calculations of what's known as the "Gini coefficient" for black Americans, data that is again available from the Federal Reserve.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2016 13:14 UTC