Gilded Paychecks: Very Rich Are Leaving the Merely Rich Behind
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The opportunity to become abundantly rich is a recent phenomenon in a growing number of other professions and occupations.
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As Google Inc.   nears the end of its first quarter as a public company, industry watchers say one of its emerging challenges is how to keep soon-to-be wealthy workers from cashing out and moving on.
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At a time when a CEO of a large U.S.  company is likely to earn in one day what the average worker  does in a year, an investment adviser takes the  income-disparity controversy a few steps further in &quot;Are the  Rich Necessary?&quot;
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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Time is on their side when it comes to earning money for retirement.
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Though the federal estate tax is fading, many people with even modest wealth are discovering that estate planning is far from obsolete.
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They are not wealthy. Their home states are politically symbolic. Their occupations or their circumstances suggest salt of the earth.
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The other secret of the world's richest can make you rich, too.
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It's expensive, but not as expensive as living without income.
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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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Comment is free: Alexander Chancellor:  Most people aspire to achieve financial security for the children. It seems odd that someone rich should aspire to the exact opposite
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Life & style: Private Lives: I've been left behind by friends who had the opportunity to travel and become successful and I feel resentful towards them.
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Not that long ago, only the aristocratic or famous felt entitled to special privileges, but nowadays we seem to be living in an age of excessive exceptionalism.
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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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When you're worth $250 million, the annual presidential salary of $400,000 represents a bit less than two-tenths of 1 percent of your net worth.
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Is there a better way to show off how rich you are than to pave your yacht's floors with gold?
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As people get richer, families get smaller, and scientists think it's because wealthy parents believe quality is more important that quantity. Commentary by Carl Zimmer