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According to personal finance experts and many colorful charts, attending college can significantly increase one's lifetime earning potential. Unfortunately, if you're poor and get yourself a fancy degree, you'll be too highfalutin for your poor peers and smell too much of the servant caste to be accepted by your wealthy classmates. And you'll never find love and die alone face down with your face in a New Yorker and your ringless hand in a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos. More »
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Despite the millions of magnetic car stickers that demanded Americans Stand United, the opposite's happening. The wealthy highbrow elite are moving culturally further and further from their Cheeto dust huffing, sexy mudflap buying dirt-folk, and the cultural class divide's only going to widen. That is, unless we college educated snobs start acting more disappointed with poor people. Why didn't anyone think of using shame before?! More »
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Charities better start sucking up to ladies. New research has found that wealthy American women control their households' philanthropic efforts almost exclusively, and that they decide to which cause their money should go based on research, analysis, and a smidgen of ladyfeelings. More »
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Finishing school, once the realm of the tiny daughters of steel magnates training for a future in rich housewifery, is now a different animal. While finishing-school grads can still walk like non-water buffalos and clap after the opera in a way that doesn't cause mass monocle-poppings, the reason for mastering the rules of decorum has changed, and one school in Switzerland teaches its students that the road to wealth is paved with good manners. Or, maybe more accurately, the moat around existing superwealth is filled with obscure decorum rules. More »
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Rebecca Mead's profile of Daphne Guinness from this week's New Yorker aims to explain the nature of the heiress/fashion star's appeal. And just what it is that she does all day. More »
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For the first time ever, women comprise (slightly) more than ten percent of the UK Sunday Times "Rich List." This is a dubious accomplishment, at least as far as assessing female progress, given that almost all of the women on the list achieved her wealth via family connections, including marriage, divorce, and inheritance. Welcome to the nineteenth century, ladies! More »
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"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle" reads the motto helpfully left on the pillow of each penitent doing the Ranch at Live Oak cleanse. At $800 and 1500 calories a day, easy for them to say. More »
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According to this woman, elocution lessons, a new wardrobe and a lot of study. The better question is, what's in it for the dude? More »
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Are you jealous of rich people, what with their indoor riding arenas and weddings that become national holidays? Take heart, commoners: the rich have less empathy than the rest of us. More »
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CBS, the network behind I Get That A Lot — in which celebs do "ordinary" jobs — will soon air The Same Name, a show in which a celeb switches lives with a normal person with the same name. More »
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Did you know that borscht tastes better when cooked in a diamond-encrusted saucepan? Or that luxury lingerie is sexier than regular lingerie? The Russians learned these lessons—and more!—at a "millionaire's fair" in Moscow. (Note: Your dog needs a new mink.) More »
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Rich people have been in the news a lot this week (like every other week). And we've learned some new things about them. For instance, they are mean. Also, the lady-rich crave a personal touch. More »
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Los Angeles and federal authorities are arguing about whose fault it is that Roman Polanski wasn't extradited. But some Swiss papers say their government was swayed by his wealth and fame. More »
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Part 5.5 of Latoya's series. More »
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Part 5 of Latoya's series. More »
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Part 4 in Latoya's series: More »
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Part two in Latoya's series: More »
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Yesterday, a headline in the Post-Gazette worked its way around Twitter:  Study finds median wealth for single black women at $5. Most outlets qualified the link by calling it "shocking" or mentioning the five dollar figure was not a typo. More »
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"Achieving fame, wealth and beauty are psychological dead ends, study says." Glad we got that settled. [EurekAlert] More »
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According to a new study, women have more orgasms if their partner is wealthy, which, as the Times of London reports, suggests "woman are inherently programmed to be gold-diggers." Ugh. More »
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Today's "Styles" section brings a profile of two mysterious Russian personal shoppers from Bergdorf Goodman, who apparently have the best, most ridiculous job in the world. More »
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"I could walk downstairs now and buy a Ferrari, but all of my friends are hurting. I don't feel like buying random toys." This wealthy coxcomb, one Michael Hirtenstein, has fallen prey to what Newsweek terms the new phenomenon of "luxury shame," in which rich people feel uncomfortable throwing money around. So now luxury goods makers will have to trick them into shopping! More »
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"Everyone is looking for handsome, rich and charming men but there are less and less of them to go around." So says one of the comely women profiled by the NY Post's Page Six Magazine who openly admits to hunting a rich man — and, these days, failing. The money isn't flowing and as a result, neither are the free drinks and fancy dinners that a certain subset of beautiful women, in time-honored fashion, take as their due. What's weird about it is that admitting this doesn't seem to embarrass them at all. More »
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Have you heard about this new trend for "personal music stylists" who customize "domestic soundtracks" for rich people's homes? These guys go to their clients' houses (presumably professionally decorated), look at their personal photos, and go though their preexisting music to get a sense of the desired ambiance — just as they would were they programming a fashion show or a store soundtrack. And yes, people want these made for their bedrooms too. Sure, this takes laziness, lack of confidence and outsourcing to decadent new lows. Never before has such a premium been placed on other people's taste, or have opinions been a hotter commodity. But...aren't these people, you know, embarrassed? More »
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