How Did the 1 Percent Get Ahead So Fast?
By Cass R. Sunstein From 2009 to 2012, the U.S. experienced a significant economic recovery, in which average real income growth jumped by 6 percent. That’s the good news. The bad news is that almost...
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Wealthy Go Frugal This Holiday Amid Uneven U.S. Recovery
By Cotten Timberlake December 10, 2013 Last holiday season, literary agent Linda Chester bought herself a sheared sable fur coat and red evening gown, both from Ralph Rucci, and designer suede...
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Financial adviser who murdered wealthy client after stealing £343,000 to...
• David Jeffs, 36, defrauded his client Roberto Troyan, 63, for years• He spent thousands a month on sports cars, fine dining and holidays• But Mr Troyan realised and...
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Eric and Liz Lefkofsky Pledge Half Their Wealth to Charity
Groupon chairman Eric Lefkofsky and his wife Liz have joined the list of wealthy people promising to give more than half of their wealth to charity.The couple signed the Giving Pledge this week,...
View ArticleOutrage follows probation for teen who killed four in crash
FORT WORTH — A juvenile court judge sentenced 16-year-old Ethan Couch to 10 years' probation Tuesday for the drunken driving crash that killed four people.Judge Jean Boyd could have sentenced Couch to...
View ArticleCopenhagen becoming a city for the wealthy
Deputy mayor says current building projects around the city are out of the price range of the average worker In just over a decade, Copenhagen has been transformed into a city for the wealthy. As wage...
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Preppy places of Connecticut, the home state of Prep.
DarienGuilfordEssexFarmingtonMadisonNew CanaanNoankReddingRowaytonSharonSouthportWest CornwallWoodbury
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Preppy places of New England
MaineCamdenCape ElizabethChristmas CoveKennebunkportKitteryNortheast HarborOqunquitRockportSeal CoveSouth BristolSouthwest HarborMassachusettsBeverly FarmsChestnut Hill?CohassetConcordCuttyhunk...
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“The only thing money gives you
“The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.” Johnny Carson
View ArticleAs wealthy cinch the purse, holiday spending slides: Survey
CNBC's Steve Liesman reveals the latest results from CNBC's All America Economic Survey which shows contradictions in consumer spending habits. The CNBC All-America Economic Survey paints a...
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To be always thinking
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Richard Whately
View ArticleThe War on Rich White Men
Written by Lloyd Marcus I heard a knock on the door of my hotel room. It was Donald. “Turn on Megyn Kelly. She is reporting about an MSNBC commentator’s claim that using the term “Obamacare” is the...
View ArticleTutor for Wealthy Families Who Makes $1,250 an Hour
Nathaniel Hannan, a 33-year-old Indiana native, went to Notre Dame and got his masters at Oxford in philosophy and geology before becoming a high school teacher in Washington, D.C. He loves to teach...
View ArticleThe Wealthy Are Moving To The Cook Islands, A Safe Paradise
The Cooks are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, lovely coral atolls, good fishing and a global pioneer in offshore asset-protection trusts, with laws designed to protect foreigners’ assets from legal...
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Money won't buy happiness,
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
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Wealthy Americans Are More Likely To Regift
Alison GriswoldWealthy Americans are more likely than others to regift during the holidays, according to a new survey from American Express.Thirty-nine percent of affluent Americans — considered by...
View ArticleThe Upscale Traveler: Prohibition history - go drink it all in
The Upscale Traveler: Prohibition history - go drink it all in: Prohibition history - go drink it all in Brian Canova Rum-running sounds almost as fun as rum-drinking - probably why we mythologiz...
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THE GROWTH OF GOOD TASTE IN AMERICA
THE GROWTH OF GOOD TASTE IN AMERICAEmily Post, 1922Good taste or bad is revealed in everything we are, do, or have. Ourspeech, manners, dress, and household goods--and even our friends--areevidences of...
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MANNERS AND MORALS
MANNERS AND MORALSByRichard DuffyWritten in 1910Many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the leastexpression of levity touching the Ten Commandments. But the Commandmentsdo not...
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How to behave at the Christmas dinner table, by etiquette expert Philip Howard
By Hannah StephensonFrom unwanted gifts to spats over the sprouts, Christmas can be fraught with social pickles. Etiquette expert Philip Howard gives Hannah Stephenson a crash course in minding your...
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