https://portside.org/2017-12-18/two-thousand-dollar-pads

'Bloomberg reports on the soaring prices of trophy apartments in Manhattan. The biggest sale so far was former Citigroup head Sandy Weill’s apartment, which he sold for $88 million to the daughter of a Russian oligarch. But $100 million listings are out there.

'For a bit of perspective: the median full-time worker in the United States makes about $40,000 a year. So it would take the typical worker 2,000 years to earn enough to buy the Weill apartment.

'Still, people like Weill are exemplars of the free market at work. They work in an industry that delivers clear value to the economy, and has never relied on government bailouts. Oh, wait.'