rich people

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A pre-recession essay on becoming extremely wealthy.

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A profile of legendary Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash.

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Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.

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The man for whom the term “jet-setter” was coined left a bitterly fractured estate.

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Two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.

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The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.

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On January 1st, 2011, the U.S. estate tax will jump from zero to around 50%, which gives a lot of very rich elders (or perhaps more accurately, their heirs) millions of dollars in incentive to expedite death.