In 2025, billionaire wealth grew at a rate three times faster than the past five-year average, reaching its highest level in history at $18.3 trillion. This comes as one in four people don't regularly ...

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A billionaire acquaintance of mine who moved from Manhattan to Miami during the pandemic was talking with me recently about New York City’s proposed pied-à-terre tax—an annual surcharge on second ...

Ms. Odell is the author of the Back Row newsletter and “Anna: The Biography.” If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t look like this before because people ...

The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, with wealth inequality reaching its widest gap in more than 30 years. Between low wages and declining employment, people are pinching pennies ...

A spate of popular social media accounts offer advice on how to achieve an “old-money” look. By Guy Trebay Want to look like a billion dollars? Social media is here to help. Daily, hourly, seemingly ...

Titular punctuation is the bane of a movie critic’s existence. Is it 28 Days Later or 28 Days Later … ? Do we really have to put quotation marks around “Wuthering Heights,” no matter how often Emerald ...

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s currently getting called a must-see ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Death and taxes may be inevitable. A big bill for your heirs is not. The rich have made an art of avoiding taxes ...

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Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne. In an essay for Aeon, US journalist Sarah Smarsh calls them “poor teeth”. She writes: Often, ...

RICH MAN, POOR MAN - BOOK I - Gallery - Shoot Date: January 12, 1976. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) NICK NOLTE;SUSAN BLAKELY;PETER STRAUSS Long ...