Top 10 Percent of American Earners Own 80 Percent of All Stocks and Pull In 50 Percent of Total Wages

Top 10 percent of American earners pulled in 49.7 percent of total wages

Ttop 10 percent of Americans own more than 80 percent of all stocks

$23.7 trillion Wall Street bailout was paid for by the bottom 99 percent

Goldman gets $52 billion in low-interest loans from the government (the taxpayers) to finance its trading

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According to data from Spectrem Group, the Chicago-based wealth research firm, in 2013 they were 8.99 million U.S. households whose net worth totals $1 million or more (not including primary residence). That was up from 8.6 million in 2011 and just short of the all-time record set in 2006, when the United States had 9.2 million millionaire households.

The stock market's rise has been the biggest driver of millionaire creation. With 2013's gains, Spectrem said, the United States may have already exceeded its all-time record.

Most of the benefits from rising stocks have gone to the wealthy, since the top 10 percent of Americans own more than 80 percent of all stocks, according to research from Edward Wolff of New York University. But the recent stock surge has also created a new gap within the wealthy, or at least between millionaires and the so-called affluent.

According to Spectrem, the number of households worth $1 million or more, and $5 million or more is near the record. But the number of households worth $500,000 or more (the affluent) is much lower than the record in 2007. There are 14.3 million households worth $500,000 or more — down from 15.7 million in 2007.