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Inside The 2014 Forbes 400: Facts And Figures About America's Wealthiest
By Kerry A. Dolan and Luisa KrollThanks to a buoyant stock market, the richest people in the U.S. just keep getting richer. That has made it harder than ever to join the ranks of the 400 wealthiest...
View ArticlePrivate schooling: the anti-snob charade continues
Stop bashing independent schooling, writes Eleanor Doughty. In fact, let's just stop talking about educational backgrounds altogether By Eleanor DoughtyIn education, as with anything else, there are...
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How A War Over Tackle Football Consumed America's Most Elite Prep School
The tide has turned against the marginalization and "sissification" of the rich American white boy. Or, at least, intramural tackle football is back at the Lawrenceville School.Alumni of Lawrenceville,...
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The 1 percent is way more politically active than you are
By Christopher Ingraham It's no secret that in many respects, politics is a game for the affluent. The more money you have, the more likely you are to pay attention to politics, to vote, or to donate...
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What the rich want in a home, old vs. young
By Kim MillerA Coldwell Banker report on the nation’s luxury home market ranks the quantity of million-dollar homes by area, but also by amenities.According to the report, which surveyed homebuyers...
View ArticleConnecticut Boarding School Target Of New Sexual Abuse Allegations
By Dave Altimari A former student at the Indian Mountain boarding school in Salisbury has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the school's former headmaster ordered him to live in the basement of his...
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Borrowing Rates for Wealthy Soar
BY Michael Stratford All college graduates are more likely than they were two decades ago to have financed their education with loans. But the likelihood of borrowing increased the most among students...
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Wealthy widower fathered Rachida Dati's love child, court rules
Court names multi-millionaire casino boss as the father of Rachida Dati's child after a prolonged legal battle By David Chazan, ParisA court has named a multi-millionaire casino boss as the father of...
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Wealthy giving less to charity
BY DAVID CRARY NEW YORK - Even as the income gap widens, the wealthiest Americans are giving a smaller share of their income to charity, while poor and middle-income people are donating a larger share,...
View ArticleBen Bradlee, Editor Who Directed Watergate Coverage, Dies at 93
By MARILYN BERGER Ben Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the fall of President Richard M. Nixon and that stamped him in American culture as...
View ArticleI Made $15 Million Before I Was 30, And It Wasn't As Awesome As You'd Think
Editor's note: An anonymous user on Quora posted this insightful answer to the question "Is getting rich worth it?" While we can't confirm the identity of the user, the answer is definitely worth a...
View ArticleThe age of entitlement: how wealth breeds narcissism
As people get richer, they are more likely to feel entitled, to exploit others, and to cheat. That extends to politics tooAnne Manne Call it the asshole effect. That is the term coined by US...
View Article12 Surprising Downsides Of Getting Rich
Maggie ZhangLuxury items, mansions, and cool cars are glorified in the media, but there's a darker side to wealth.In a recent Quora thread, “Is getting rich worth it?,” users shared the surprising...
View ArticleFor the Love of Money
By SAM POLKJAN. 18, 2014IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no...
View ArticleAffluent Chinese a growing factor in upscale hotel market
The Shangri-La in Paris. — AFP picLONDON, Oct 15 — Affluent Chinese travellers have become a driving force in the luxury market this year, with online interest in upscale hotels growing 39 per cent...
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St. Moritz: Where the world's wealthy go in winter
By JOHN BORDSENThe Charlotte ObserverOctober 27, 2014 Yves Gardiol is general manager of Badrutt's Palace Hotel (www.badruttspalace.com), the famous resort in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Gardiol, a...
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Snob
By Robert ReichThe father of a college-bound student admitted to me yesterday he wanted his daughter to go to an Ivy League school “so she and her husband won’t have to worry about money.” He explained...
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Life moments from a childhood in the 60s
BY BELINDA S.H. LEEA reader shares heartwarming stories of her childhood days.Life in the sixties was vastly different from what it is today. Back then, a packet of fried meehoon cost only 10 sen.I was...
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