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These Are The Richest Women In The World

Posted 05.26.2012

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The richest women may span the globe, but two of them come from the same family: the Waltons. Two of the Walmart heirs capture spots one and and t...

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Facebook Co-Founder May Have Sidestepped Taxes By Dropping U.S. Citizenship

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 05.11.2012

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One of Facebook's billionaire co-founders may have found a way to sidestep taxes on the money he’ll get when the social network goes public later th...

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How The Super-Rich Plan To Survive The Apocalypse

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.11.2012

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Most people have too much on their plates to worry about what will happen when the world ends. But then there are those who have too much money no...

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Would You Like A Therapist With That Bank Account?

Mother Jones | Erika Eichelberger | Posted 04.11.2012

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Maybe money can buy happiness--if your bank comes with a therapist. The unhappy Scrooge McDucks of the world no longer have to rely on their butler...

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Super Rich Still Have Little To Fear From IRS

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Despite the Internal Revenue Service's promise to bring new scrutiny to tax avoidance schemes used by the super rich, a new report finds...

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You'll Never Believe How Much This Whiskey Costs

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

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By John O'Callaghan and Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE, March 31 (Reuters) - A whisky made to mark the 60th year on the throne of Britain...

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The Super-Rich Love This City...

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.29.2012

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The British Royals aren't the only rich people that love London. The British capital is the most important city for the super-rich all over the gl...

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Why You'll Never Own An Electric Car

Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012

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* EVs to make up only 1.5 pct of US market in 2017-analyst * Henry Ford bought his wife electric cars * Obama wants to b...

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Apocalypse Now: GOP Budget Offers Second-Rate Vision for First-Rate Country

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.20.2012

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The GOP budget is an immoral and callous clarion call for the middle class to pay more and get less. It promotes prosperity for the few instead of opportunity for all. It says we should be on our own instead of bound together by common purpose.

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WATCH: The Super-Rich's Favorite New Toy

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.19.2012

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To check out the new favorite toy of the mega-rich, you'll have to do some deep sea diving. That's because that new plaything is a single-person s...

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When The Super-Rich Spend, So Does Everyone Else

Posted 03.20.2012

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Move over baseball. Keeping up with the Joneses is apparently the real national pastime. When the rich boost their spending by 10 percent, non-ric...

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Newt's Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes

Robert Reich | Posted 02.12.2012

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Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness.

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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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Making It Into The One Percent Doesn't Mean You'll Stay There

Posted 11.17.2011

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Getting a spot in the elite one percent club by no means secures your place there. A sizable minority of those in the one percent shifted between 2...

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Most One Percenters Don't Know They're In The One Percent

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.16.2011

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Think you're part of the 99 percent? You may be wrong. Half of the top one percent of earners, don't think they're part of that category, a new su...

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Most Americans Say Economy Favors 'Very Small Portion Of The Rich'

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.23.2012

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Most Americans consider the country's economic structure out of whack. Sixty percent of Americans said they think the country's economic structure...

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Most Super-Rich Parents Don't Tell Their Kids Just How Rich They Are

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.23.2012

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The majority of super-rich kids don't find out just how wealthy they are until after they can have a legal drink. Only a third of parents worth mo...

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Poverty Amid Plenty: America's Continuing Shame

David Coates | Posted 12.31.2011

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To what degree are we all fellow-citizens in this society, and to what degree are we not? Are we one America or are we two? If we are one America, it is surely time to make the alleviation of poverty our number one priority.

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Poverty Amid Plenty - America's Continuing Shame

David Coates | Posted 12.31.2011

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If we are one America -- or at least if we want to be one America, united and at social peace -- it is surely time to make the alleviation of poverty our number one priority. Inside the 99 percent, it is surely time to focus hard on the needs of the bottom fifth.

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Here Come the Super-Rich Girls

Raconteur Media | Posted 11.28.2011

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Wealth managers are targeting rich and super-rich women, but how should they aim to win wealthy clients across the gender divide? Dina Medland finds o...

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More for Them, Less for You

Carl Gibson | Posted 11.07.2011

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The current crop of Republicans vying for the presidential nomination are all champions of a reverse-Robin Hood methodology that calls for soaking the poor to give more lavish tax breaks to the rich, and calling it "job creation."

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Walsh Slams Buffett's Tax Hikes, Appears On Chicago Tonight Wednesday

Posted 10.31.2011

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U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh's (R-Ill.) scheduled appearance on WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" Wednesday will cover the economy, debt and revelations about his perso...

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Income Inequality: 8 Charts On The Divide Between Rich & Poor

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 m...

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Russell Simmons on Being 'Super Rich' (AUDIO)

Jeff Rivera | Posted 05.25.2011

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He is one of the wealthiest men in hip hop and known as one of the Godfathers of today's music movement. Tough, strong, sensitive, beautiful, all wor...

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We Can't Afford Business As Usual!

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

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As we in the business community come to a crossroads here in the 21st Century, we have to ask ourselves, do we want to choose the path of self-interest or do we want to choose the path of greater good?

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