Wealthy Americans

Rich Buying Again, But Middle Class Still Hurting

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business


American shoppers are splitting again: The affluent are finally starting to buy, picking up designer clothes at places like Nordstrom, while those on ...

Rich Americans Scrambling Over Tax Dodge Crackdown

Posted 09.15.2009 | Business


By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from...

UBS Tax Probe: US Citizen Charged, First One

Associated Press | Tamara Lush | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business


MIAMI (AP) -- A yacht company accountant became the first U.S. citizen Thursday to be charged in the government's investigation into wealthy citizens ...

Study: Wealthy Make Less Eye Contact

Canwest News Service | Misty Harris, | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business


The rich are too posh to pay attention, according to a new study on socioeconomic status and body language. In observing casual interactions between ...

We Have Plenty Of Money -- The Rich Are Killing Us

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Tasini

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.

U.S. Millionaire Growth Stalls

CNN/Money | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years, according to a re...