section_path: Views/Economics/Wealth inequality
section_name: Wealth inequality
paragraph_text: Wealth inequality
  
  In 2011, Carney referred to the Occupy Wall Street protests as "entirely constructive", citing frustrations being felt "particularly in the United States" over inequality and increasing CEO–worker pay gaps. In December 2016, Carney warned of the societal risk of "staggering wealth inequalities " in a Roscoe Lecture at Liverpool John Moores University: "The proportion of the wealth held by the richest 1% of Americans increased from 25% in 1990 to 40% in 2012... Globally, the share of wealth held by the richest 1% in the world rose from one-third in 2000 to one-half in 2010."