Super Rich

Rising Tide

Gershon Hepner | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business


Gershon Hepner

We all prefer, like King Canute, to think we can control the tide, as we our treasury now loot, from reality to hide.

The Super-Rich Are Getting Poorer

New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business


The rich have been getting richer for so long that the trend has come to seem almost permanent. They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1...

Super-Rich Tax Cheats (VIDEO)

American News Project | Harry Hanbury | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


They hide an estimated $100 billion a year from the IRS, but now the U.S. Senate is turning up the heat on offshore tax havens. The man who ratted out...

CNBC Documentary: "Rise Of The Super Rich" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business


CNBC aired a documentary on the 'Super-rich' on 6/26/08. The documentary focused on the excesses of the super-rich, various psychological analyses of ...

What Recession? Mega-Mansions Boom In L.A.

The Los Angeles Times | Jessica Garrison | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business


In Beverly Hills, a 32,000-square-foot beaux-arts mansion that will be sheathed in Portuguese limestone and adorned with gold-plated doorknobs fashion...

Super-Rich Actually See Wealth Grow

Reuters Via CNBC | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business


Wealth held by rich investors with assets over $1 million is set to grow 50 percent in the next five years to $75 trillion, according to a report publ...

Billionaire Timber Tycoon Says He's Regular Guy

CBS News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Jeff Glor introduces Tim Blixseth, a billionaire timber tycoon, who thinks of himself as a regular guy. Author Robert Frank says Blixseth represents a...

Clements: Being Super-Rich Is Overrated

Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Clements | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Great wealth is overrated. Whenever my kids swoon over a palatial home or a passing Ferrari, it always bugs the heck out of me. Before long, I am on ...

Income Gap Crisis: Wealth Of America's Super-Rich Greatest In 20 Years

CBS News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Trickle Up economics has just scored its greatest success and it is being covered up. I wonder why. Could it be embarrassment? The Internal Revenue S...