Rising Tide
We all prefer, like King Canute, to think we can control the tide, as we our treasury now loot, from reality to hide.
We all prefer, like King Canute, to think we can control the tide, as we our treasury now loot, from reality to hide.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Gershon Hepner | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business