You will probably not win the lottery, create the next Google or be entitled to a significant inheritance. Most of us can not just go out into the ma...

The way in which oil speculator Andrew J. Hall is going to get his $100 million demonstrates clearly why we need to return to the 91 percent top bracket income taxes of the Eisenhower years.

The new decade affords an opportunity to screen our baggage and decide what we do and don't want to bring with us as we travel into the future.

In the last 9 months have likely seen a massive upward shift in the distribution of America's wealth. We have surging stock and bond markets and struggling housing markets.

What can we do in the face of so much wealth, so much lobbying power and so much weakness on the part of so many political leaders?

Do the super-rich really earn their wealth? Financial wealth is a slippery concept especially as it slithers through a mountain of bailouts now running somewhere near $13 trillion.

We face a true national emergency. More than 30 million Americans are without jobs or are working part-time because there are no full-time jobs to be found.

Perhaps we need a new vocabulary that helps us describe a society that promotes the accumulation of vast riches, bails out the rich, and avoids responsibility for the common good.

I understand Bradley Birkenfeld's desire to spend less time in jail, but the story of UBS's tax cheats raises a bigger question: Why isn't there a wealth adviser-client privilege?

Galbraith reportedly got himself a $100 million piece (or more) of a Kurdish oil field. Hall's oil trading scams are picking our pockets by driving up the price of oil just enough for him to make a killing.

We can either prop up the billionaire bailout society as Geithner wants or we can begin the necessary process of breaking it up. You know what the financial interests want.

There is something important to be learned from Jeff Dunham's improbable rise. Passion and belief are often able to create a path forward where none may exist.

For the past 30 years we have minted billionaires, and we have created the most unequal distribution of wealth since 1928-29. This didn't happen by accident.

Collectively, the Forbes 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It's hard to get your mind around a number like that. So let's imagine that it was available for the public good. What does $1.57 trillion buy?

The rich haven't gotten richer--or poorer--this year. The price of admission to this, the 27th edition of The Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion for the seco...