Click here to read the Too Much weekly edition emailed to readers on November 21, 2011.

Just 40 years ago, most Americans rubbed elbows with neighbors from a fairly wide cross-section of income levels. But today’s rich, Census data show, are keeping everyone else at arm’s length — and more . . . Subsidies from Uncle Sam for America’s rich and famous . . . U.S. family mobility before and after the Wall Street meltdown.