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Global High Wealth Industry Group Created: New IRS Unit Will Target The Very Wealthy

Wall Street Journal | MARTIN VAUGHAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- A new Internal Revenue Service enforcement unit targeting the very wealthy will help the tax agency decode partnerships, offshore trusts...

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Hey, Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire?

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

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Joel Epstein

According to a recent report the number of millionaire households around the world fell from around 11 million in 2007 to 9 million last year. The only region going the other way -- Latin America.

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I'm Sick of Hearing About the Poor, Poor Millionaires

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.

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Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

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45 Percent Of Millionaires Worried About Money: Study

CNN Money | Georges Mannes | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Millionaires, Business News

In the survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, participants were probed about one of those primal fears that affect anyone thinking about retirement-...

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Millionaires To Reap Two-Thirds Of The Benefits From McCain's Proposed Tax Cuts

The Wonk Room | Pat Garofalo | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, Mccain, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Millionaires, Pension and Family Security Plan, Tax Policy Center, Business News

As part of his new economic outline - The Pension and Family Security Plan - Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has proposed cutting the tax rate on long term ca...

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Lose Your Job and Watch Your Friends Vanish

Vicky Ward | Posted 10.30.2008 | Style

Read More: Friendship, Job Losses, Wall Street Crisis, Opera, Millionaires, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Jobs, Style News
Vicky Ward

There's no doubt that in New York "friendship" is a fickle term. As long as you are king, you will courted; when you are down and out, you are dumped.

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Friday Talking Points [44] -- McCain House Party!

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...

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World Now Has 10 Million Millionaires

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Personal Wealth, Income Gap, Wealth Gap, Millionaires, New Millionaires, Business News

NEW YORK — Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club. The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets pa...

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Should You Avoid Jim Cramer?

ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

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He might be the most-celebrated stock-picker on TV, but many say Jim Cramer got it wrong and some have renewed an older criticism of the television ho...

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U.S. Millionaire Growth Stalls

CNN/Money | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years, according to a re...

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Teenage Millionaires On The Rise

Forbes Via ABC News | Melanie Linder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Millionaires, Whiz Kids, Teenage Millionaires, Teen Millionaires, Youngest Millionaires, Business News

While their peers were out making trouble, these young achievers were making bank. Forever in search of the secrets to entrepreneurial success, we pe...

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IRS Audits of Millionaires on the Rise

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — There's at least one advantage to not being a millionaire _ less chance of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. The tax ...

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The Rich Are Getting Richer Faster

New York Times | DAVID CAY JOHNSTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Top 1 Percent of American, Billionaires, Wealth, Congressional Budget Office, Income Inequality, Millionaires, Business News

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in ...

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MySpace For Millionaires

Wall Street Journal | Robert Frank | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Millionaires, Myspace, aSmallWorld.Net, Social Networking, Business News

A new crop of online social-networking sites has taken aim at the rich, seeking to create exclusive Web communities of like-moneyed friends. The sites...

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Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires

Forbes Via Yahoo | Lisa LaMotta | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Millionaires, Forbes 400, Self-Made Millionaires, Richest Entrepreneurs, Business News

As kids, America's richest entrepreneurs dreamt of curing patients, flying jets, writing plays and bagging base hits for the Chicago Cubs. Instead, th...

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