Millionaires

How The Super-Rich Are Suffering From Europe's Economic Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

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* Global luxury house prices fell 0.4 pct in Q1 2012 * First quarterly price fall since 2009 LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - ...

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Who He's Really Going After

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Taxes, Obama Buffett Rule, Higher Tax Rate, Millionaires, Tax Day, Barack Obama Taxes, Warren Buffett, Buffett Rule Tax, Millionaire Tax, Taxpayers, Barack Obama, Buffett Rule, Money News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itse...

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Millionaires Can Rest Easy, Buffett Rule Still Has Loopholes To Exploit

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Richest People, Bloomberg, Income Tax, Municipal-Bonds, Millionaires, Mitt Romney, Obama Administration, Warren Buffett, Obama, Whitney Tilson, Tax Evasion, Buffett Rule, Business News

President Obama's so-called Buffett Rule is supposed to make certain that top-earning Americans don't pay taxes at lower rates than their assistants. ...

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The Buffett Rule: Your Straight Deal on Taxes

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Fair Share of Taxes, Tax Fairness, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ronald Reagan, Paying a Fair Share, Fair-Share, President Obama, Millionaires, Warren Buffett, Rhode Island, Billionaires, Buffett Rule, Congress, 112th Congress, Politics News

If the American people make their voices heard and put enough pressure on Congress, we can restore fairness in our economic system, do what's right for the middle class, and show that Congress can stand up to special interests.

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Lotteries Winners Splurge On... This?

Posted 03.20.2012

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We all fantasize about what it would be like to win the lottery. We see ourselves driving fancy sports cars and living in a swanky penthouse. We would...

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How to Be a Temporal Millionaire

Maria Lin | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Money Time Management, Temporal Millionaires, Money-Management-Tips, Money Goals, Money Management, Time and Money, Millionaires, Money News

Given the choice between being a money millionaire and a temporal millionaire, I'd choose the latter.

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Average-Joe Millionaires Turn Out For Apple Shareholder Meeting

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012

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Ever wish you'd gotten in on the ground floor of a company like Apple, Google or Microsoft? Apple's most recent shareholder meeting, which took pl...

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In Closed Door Dinner, Buffett Pitches Senate Democrats On Tax Fairness

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the billionaire philanthropist who inspired President Barack Obama's new crusade to ma...

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59% Of Millionaires Feel Obligation To Give Back, Study Says

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rich Donations, Millionaire Donations, R. Bruce Bickel, Millionaires, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, PNC Wealth Management, Video, Impact News

Despite continued economic woes, a majority of the nation's millionaires aren't cinching their purse strings when it comes to charitable giving. Fi...

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Buffett To McConnell: Put Up Or Shut Up

TIME.com | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Taxes, Warren Buffett Taxes, Congress, Mitch McConnell, Mitch Mcconnell Taxes, Millionaires, Warren Buffett, Gop, Buffett Rule Act, Republicans, Politics News

Warren Buffett is ready to call Republicans’ tax bluff. Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett was feeling “guilty” about payin...

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IRS Audits Of Millionaires Jump By Roughly A Third

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.05.2012

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What do the Occupy movement and IRS have in common? They're both taking an interest in the one percent. Tax audits for millionaires jumped in fisca...

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'Millionaire Job Creators Are Like Unicorns'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.12.2011

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) compared millionaires who create jobs to unicorns Monday on the Senate floor. "Millionaire job creators ...

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PHOTOS: Holiday Gift List For One Percenters

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.10.2011

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With the economy on shaky ground, these holidays will be a struggle for many Americans. Indeed, some don't plan to shop at all, and even Santa is tryi...

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Expert: Wealthy Will Not Be Go-To Job Creators In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Video, World in 2012, Wealthy, The One Percent, The Economist, Investment, Millionaires, Billionaires, Job Creation, Robert Frank, Business News

The richest people in the world are not set to rescue the economy any time soon, because they are worried about shielding their own wealth in an era o...

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Millions In Tax Refunds Remain Undelivered

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Taxes, Video, Tax Refunds, Millionaires, Marketwatch, National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, Warren Buffett, Taxpayers, Cnnmoney, Buffett Rule, Business News

The Internal Revenue service has more than a hundred million dollars it would like to give deserving taxpayers. Exactly 99,123 taxpayers are owed ...

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Television Without Millionaires?

Jack Healey | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: 99%, Television, Elitism, Income Inequality, Occupy Movement, Occupy, 1%, Millionaires, A Day Without Art, Andy Warhol, Occupy Millionaires, Aids Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, World AIDS Day, Day Without Millionaires, Culture News

The idea is simple. What would happen if we broadcast an entire day's programming without a single millionaire being visible on the screen?

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Republicans' Tax Dilemma

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Payroll Tax, Taxes, Deficit, Social Security, Tea Party, Tax, Chris Weigant, Millionaires, Tax Cut, Tax Holiday, Congress, Grover Norquist, Republicans, Democrats, Tax Hike, Politics News

Have the Republicans in Congress painted themselves into a corner on taxes? They seem to be in the position of choosing between a number of courses of action, most of which would normally be seen as going against their principles.

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Millionaires Head To Capitol Hill To Lobby To Raise Taxes On Themselves

AP | By LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Lobbyists for a day, a band of millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to tax them more. They had a little trou...

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How Income Inequality Undermines Social Security's Finances

Daniel Marans | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Payroll Tax, Tax Loophole, Tax Max, Social Security, Income Inequality, Fdr, Millionaires, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

If politicians want to completely restore Social Security to long-range balance, they should consider scrapping the cap entirely. That is what, poll after poll reports, the American people overwhelmingly favor.

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GOP Senator Decries 'Welfare' For Millionaires

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 01.14.2012

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A leading Senate conservative is taking aim at tax breaks that he says amount to welfare for millionaires, a line of critique that usually comes from ...

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Most Millionaires Want Higher Taxes For Millionaires: Survey

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Taxes, U.S. Economy, Video, Income Inequality, Occupy Wall Street, Spectrem Group, Millionaires, Warren Buffett, Tax the Rich, Millionaires Tax, Barack Obama, Buffett Rule, Business News

Tax the rich, Warren Buffett says -- and a majority of millionaires agree. According to a survey from the consulting firm Spectrem Group, sixty-eig...

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Will Dropouts Save America? No.

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Education, College Dropouts, Billionaires, Higher Education, College Degree, The New York Times, Millionaires, College News

There are few things more condescending and destructive than those who have benefited from an expensive and intensive college education arguing that others need not bother about such benefits for themselves.

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Visualizing The Income Gap

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Income Distribution, Income Gap, Poverty, Millionaires, Occupy Wall Street, American Wealth Vanishes, Visualizing Economics, Business News, Wealth Gap, Global Wealth, Business News

One of the focal points of the protests raging in Zuccotti Park and around the world is the sizable gap between the rich and everyone else. Yet as the...

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Annual Median Wage Falls To 10-Year Low As Number Of Millionaires Grows

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.23.2012

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Americans' wages are falling, perhaps a reason why pessimism about their personal finances is now the lowest it's been in a decade. The annual medi...

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Where The Super-Rich Live

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Financial District, Occupy Wall Street, Millionaires, Citibank, Ultra High Net Worth, Uhnw, Bankers, 24/7 Wall St, Slidepollajax, New York, Wealth-X, Business News

Super-rich and looking for a place to call home? Luckily there's a short-list of possible locations. The homes of Ultra High Net Worth (UHNWs) ind...

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