How The Wealthiest Families Make And Lose Their Money
Todd Ganos Conspiracy theories run the gamut. For some, there’s a massive government cover-up of UFOs or among scientists about the existence of Bigfoot. For others, it’s the Freemasons controlling...
View ArticleWealthy Shoppers Tell Brands How They Want Technology Integrated Into the...
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Feb 5, 2014) - The New York-based Luxury Institute asked consumers 21 years of age and older from U.S. households with minimum annual income of $250,000 about their views...
View Article85 richest people have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorest
Kush Azrael The richest 85 people in the world are as wealthy as the poorest half of the worlds population according to a report called “Working for the Few,” just released by the human rights group...
View ArticleOakland's growing cadre of doormen - key to a good life Carolyn Jones
At the Regillus, Sam Williams will greet you with a warm smile and a "How are you, today?" and will carry up your groceries. Across the street at the Lake Royal, Felton White will bring you the morning...
View ArticleWealthy People Are Optimistic, Plan To Travel
by Karl Greenberg,The very wealthy, the merely affluent, and people who are millionaires -- those with a million dollars in assets but who could theoretically fall into any group when it comes...
View ArticleWealthy leaders turn to high-cost coaches to improve their skills
PAUL SULLIVAN The New York Times News ServiceIn 2005, Ali Riaz, then president of a search technology company that would eventually be sold to Microsoft Corp., was having dinner with one of his board...
View ArticleSnobbery? let us count the ways
Restaurant Review: Le Cirque Signature (Franco Italian)The blue in your blood or the shiny spoon in your mouth isn't going to impress the New Snobs who think of themselves as discerning not...
View ArticleBlue blood as it was
Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes, part of Chicago's society, stroll down Lake Shore Drive on Easter Sunday with their dog Dandy, circa April 5, 1932.
View ArticleBiltmore Estate hid precious art during World War II
By Tony KissAsheville Citizen-TimesASHEVILLE In the new World War II movie “The Monuments Men,” George Clooney and Matt Damon are army officers assigned to save historic artworks before they are...
View ArticleWhy the rich use credit cards
On the surface, the rich appear to have little use for credit cards. After all, they have plenty of cash, and it's probably accessible through a debit card that can be used anywhere a credit card can....
View ArticleLiving in Rich Neighborhood May Fuel Materialism
MONDAY, Feb. 17, 2014 -- People who live in rich neighborhoods are more likely to be materialistic, compulsive spenders and poor savers than those in less wealthy areas, a new study shows.This is...
View ArticleHarvard's Mankiw: The 1 Percent Earns Their Money Fair and Square
By Dan WeilThe top 1 percent of Americans in terms of income generally deserve the money they make, says Harvard economist Greg Mankiw.Part of the problem is that the public doesn't understand how the...
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. Samuel Johnson
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