The Millionaire Fair seemed like such a good idea when it was launched in 2002. Gather together all the companies that sell to the rich--watch makers,...
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
Remember the old song "We've Only Just Begun"? It appears to be a perspective that's been forgotten these days. The media has been so focused on the...
AP | DAN STRUMPF | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
LOS ANGELES — With the U.S. all but certainly in a recession and many skittish consumers hesitant to buy even a Honda Accord, it would seem the ...
The Wealth Report | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
You know times are tough when the rich start cutting costs on their mistresses. According to a new survey by Prince & Assoc., more than 80% of multim...
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Just across the river from the Statue of Liberty's promise of welcome, the tired and poor are not even an afterthought.
The New York Observer | Spencer Morgan | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
"I think this country should be operating the way it used to be a long time ago which was if you take a risk, then you're going to be punished if it d...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
While our country is disintegrating, the rich are hiding. They are hiding behind a decades-long ideology that paralyzes the political system from being serious about what the rich should pay.
WebEcoist | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green
The U.K. has the most expensive green home that has ever actually been sold: the Orchid House broke records at �7.2 million, or $14.2 million USD. T...
CNBC | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business
The business of high-end prostitution has been in the news quite a bit lately, partially because it's suffering along with the market. As CNBC reports...
New York Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business
Indeed, sources said some Wall Streeters will see their bonuses shrink by 25 percent to 40 percent, while others are set to get zilch when year-end pa...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
"Money-rexia" is characterized by the belief that one can never be rich enough and the concurrent and irrational fear that one will become destitute.
Reuters | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
The sale of a luxury yacht once owned by former dictator Saddam Hussein, moored until recently off France, has met with muted interest from would-be b...
Terrance Heath | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Last week I ventured into the "spreading the wealth" discussion with a post attempting to unpack one aspect of why even some people who migh...
Terrance Heath | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
In my work-related news reading this morning, I came across an interesting take on Obama's exchange with "Joe the Plumber." The truth is that Obama in...
Washington Post | David Segal | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
GREENWICH, Conn. -- It isn't easy to get the super-rich to discuss their money woes, and the Rev. Chuck Davis, who runs the Stanwich Church here in th...
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The stories of both the Dewolfs and the McCains are significant for what they can teach us about the ongoing legacy of slavery and racism in the U.S.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Americans don't fear socialism because it isn't going to happen. They don't fear the redistribution of wealth but the permanent distribution of poverty at their doorsteps.
New York Post | Kaja Whitehouse | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business
In choppy financial seas, even billionaires are unloading their prized but pricey toys. Despite making a mint on his ImClone holdings, hedge-fund bil...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business
Two heirs to French fashion house Hermes have found themselves in the news lately. Most recently, Mathias Guerrand-Hermes apparently attacked a pilot ...
Betsy Perry | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
It isn't "chic" to pretend to cut back; for most of us, it's crucial. But you don't put on your down-on-my-luck face or it shows, and no one wants to hang around a loser.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business
What is a Christian response to a deepening economic crisis like this? What should people of faith be thinking, saying, and doing?
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
Ordinary people are outraged that the wealthy want to be given free money as a bailout, and at the same time they are frightened about losing their ow...
Reuters | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The world outside may be in the thralls of crisis, with house prices plunging, markets slumping and banks collapsing; but Russia's ...
Telegraph | Adrian Blomfield | Posted 10.04.2008 | Business
For the first time in Russia's history, over 100 youngsters stand to inherit more than $1 billion from the country's burgeoning ranks of oligarchs. A...
The Wealth Report | Posted 10.03.2008 | Business
Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, is a master of the form and has developed her own signature specialty. She wraps her thank-y...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business