Is slowing globalisation a threat to the US stock market?

Labour’s share of income has plummeted in the United States during the past decade. This has provided an important prop to the stock market because its flipside has been a surge in the share of income paid to the owners of capital, which includes corporate profits. But will the trend continue now that the pace of globalisation is showing signs of slowing?

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