With the Dow breaching 14,000, investors have recovered the more than $8 trillion in wealth lost during the recession and millionaires are more numerous and more confident than they've ever been.
Subtract the Oracle of Omaha's charitable donations for this past year, and the total of the top 15 donors would be far less than last year’s $2.6 billion.
As their clients became frozen by economic churning in Europe and Washington, wealth advisers have been trying to convince clients of the positive effects of uncertainty.
One in five of Americans earning less than $20,000 a year would see a tax hike of $1,070, since Boehner's bill would eliminate deductions for low earners.
For all its symbolic value, the House Speaker John Boehner's plan to tax million-plus incomes would raise only modest revenues compared to the Obama plan.
In the past, the wealthy employed a butler, cook, driver and more. Now, there are personal services that were never even dreamed of. Here are some for the contemporary one percent.