Americans still the wealthiest, but less so (Marketplace From American Public Media)

Quoted: The middle class in developing countries might be larger by other measurements. Tim Smeeding is director of The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “One part of building wealth that may not be taken into account is the growth of home ownership and home quality in the developing world. People tend to create their own wealth, many of them by building their own homes.”