Click here to read the Too Much weekly edition emailed to readers on December 6, 2010.

Inside this issue: Looking back at the taxes individual wealthy Americans paid in 1941 can help us understand how coddled our wealthy are tdoay . . . A dramatic look at how Wall Street fleeced America during the subprime years . . . The Canada-U.S. rich-rich gap . . . The fortune behind Ikea.