Not many models can parlay their often short-lived runway careers into massive retail empires, but Kathy Ireland has successfully blazed the trail. As...
Stunning new research from a New York University economics professor reveals just how wide the chasm between the rich and everyone else has grown over...
Women have helped build some of the biggest companies in America, and they have the bank accounts to show for it. A look at some of the nation's femal...
WASHINGTON -- When newly minted vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan entered Congress in 1999, he wasn't one of the richest lawmakers, with an averag...
Are you in your late thirties or early forties? Our condolences, then. The recession was probably especially horrible for you. Households aged 35 t...
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth? Don't get used to it. Some 32 percent of high and ultra-high net worth Americans don't feel it's important ...
(In 3rd paragraph, corrects median net worth to $77,300 in 2010, not $77.3 trillion, and corrects to $126,000 in 2007, not $126 trillion.) ...
WASHINGTON — Americans are climbing further out of the hole they sank into during the Great Recession. A stock rally at the end of 2011 helped ...
Seth was in his 20s on spring break in Florida when he fell into a debt trap. Alongside the cocktails on the beach and wet T-shirt contests were credi...
Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the U.S. is enough to support how many median salary jobs?
With stubbornly high unemployment, a failing education system and mounting federal debt, has Dr. King's dream truly been realized in 2012?
Over the years and then again recently, I have been thinking a lot about net worth and self-worth. Each has its value but I think the difference is "worth" noting.
After diving into the financial disclosure forms of area politicians, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel concluded what we all might have guessed after we...
Can you believe November is gone? It seems like just yesterday summer was approaching, and now here we are about to face the end of another year. Befo...
Most men buy into the notion that their self-worth can best be measured by their financial success. That belief is totally misguided and it's especially damaging to men over 50 who are struggling financially in tough economic times.
Republican presidential candidates are confused when they attack the Fed for "printing money." So are many others. The Fed was created in 1913 precisely to "print money" when it was needed.
WASHINGTON — Gradually but steadily, Americans are recovering their vast loss of wealth from the recession, thanks to larger stock portfolios. ...
The richest Americans got even richer this year, according to the new Forbes 400 list, even as the country's total net worth tanked during the second ...
Americans' net worth plunged in the second quarter of this year, new data from the Federal Reserve show, erasing the gains of the previous two quarter...
WASHINGTON — The rebuilding of Americans' wealth is proceeding in steps rather than strides. Households' net worth rose last quarter – th...
According to a report released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development this week, there is a vast discrepancy in wealth between singl...
WASHINGTON — Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth – gradually. Household net worth rose last quarter, mainly because the healing...
Many people believe that good self-care requires money - only the rich have the resources to invest in themselves. I met two people who explained how my thinking was understandable, but mistaken.
WASHINGTON — Inch by inch, Americans are recovering some of their vast loss of wealth from the recession, thanks to gains in stock investments a...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- American households lost $1.33 trillion of their wealth in the first three months of the year as the recession took a bite out of ...
