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Billionaire's Secretive Space Venture Reveals Rocket Plan

Posted 04.30.2012

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By: Mike Wall Published: 04/30/2012 06:26 AM EDT on SPACE.com Blue Origin wants to fly under the radar all the way into space. The secretive pr...

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We Can Get Your Financial Crisis Kitsch For You Wholesale

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2012

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Over at the Washington City Paper, "Rich People Things" author Chris Lehmann goes questing after rumors that post-crash tchotchkes from the House of L...

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Notes From a Party for Rich People

Daniel Cubias | Posted 02.01.2012

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Daniel Cubias

The aluminumadores in my neighborhood at least try to maintain some kind of dignity in spite of their humiliating circumstances. Contrast that with what I witnessed at the upscale party, where a wealthy man groveled and whined just to get his friends inside.

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Bank Of America Thought He Was A Good Idea

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.17.2012

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What's a beleaguered Bank of America to do? Well, it could make a company-wide commitment to offering better customer service and undertake a systemic reform of its business practices. Or, it could hire Malcolm Gladwell as a shill and put him in front of small-business owners!

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'Rich People Things'

Chris B. Lehmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris B. Lehmann

Yet once I was saddled with this column name-cum-mission statement, I began to realize how thoroughly American culture had become a storehouse of rich people things, broadly speaking.

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'Rich People Things' Book Trailer Re-Dubs 'La Dolce Vita' For Melancholy Look At The Real Economic Victims (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Wall Street Journal gamely asserted, people really need to spend less time thinking about how the economic downturn is affecting the nation's r...

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