A change in regime?
In their newly released study, the Northeastern economists found that since the recovery began in June 2009 following a deep 18-month recession, “corporate profits captured 88 percent of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1 percent” of that growth.
Here is more. The normal recovery pattern is more skewed toward capital than you might think, but this particular gradient is unprecedented as far as I know.