Age of Riches: The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age
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Todayâs titans often see themselves as pillars of a new age of prosperity, one in which their successes and their philanthropy have made government less important.
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In his lively new book, Garrett M. Graff asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the âfirst campaign of the new age.â
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New figures on university endowments confirm it's not just the "haves" and "have nots" in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there's a growing group of the newly rich schools, and Â at the top of the heap Â a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.
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press baron, financier, philanthropist, member of the global elite. But as we learned this week from a Hollinger International investigative
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before.
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As 2004 draws to a close, it should come as heartening news that this past year was one of the most prosperous in history. Not because the American economy grew by a solid 4.3 percent.
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Business & money: Wealth of world's super-rich soared at fastest rate for seven years last year.
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On the 25th anniversary of the Forbes 400, Alfred Knopf has published a book about how the superrich make--and spend--fortunes.
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The rich get richer. The Pritzker family could soon get tens of millions of dollars from a settlement involving the collapse of a bank it co-owned.
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Forbes magazine, which once adapted the old Marxist taunt &quot;capitalist tool&quot; as a slogan, has compiled a list of the 400 richest Americans that, in a curious way, is an encouragement to the rest of us.
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The top ZIPs on our list home to highly affluent residents, but are they the richest? Not necessarily.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 24  - Bill Gates kept his ranking atop the richest people in the United States, boosting his worth to 48 billion dollars, but investor Warren Buffett edged closer, Forbes magazine said Friday.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is apparently even richer than anyone realized. Forbes magazine's annual list of richest Americans is estimating his wealth at twice the number it gave last year, vaulting him to the rank of 25 with a fortune estimated at $11.5 billion.
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By Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 5--The rich really are getting richer in Pennsylvania.   And, according to a new report on wages, everybody else is getting poorer.
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It's hard not to get rich investing this way.
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Billionaires who can afford anything buy these objects of desire.
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Almost 1,000 people can now lay claim to being members of the world's billionaire club, says Forbes magazine.