Stories Tagged as
Wealth
Giving away your inheritance
Aug 16, 2013
Here's a conversation that might prove tricky: a young adult who tells her parents that she plans on giving away her inheritance.
Subcompact cars and the income divide
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Noel King
Aug 6, 2013
As breaking into the middle class becomes harder, car companies are finding new ways to attract an expanding base of less-affluent consumers. They're offering more small car models with better features than ever before.
Jolie Myers/Marketplace
Jeep: A car brand for rich and poor alike
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Noel King
Aug 6, 2013
When it comes to cars, there are brands for rich people -- Mercedes, Audi, BMW -- and there are cars for people of more modest means -- Chevys, Fords, Toyotas. But just as many people at the bottom of the income ladder buy Jeeps as people at the top.
Jolie Myers/Marketplace
Detroit: You Know You're Wealthy When...
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Sarah Cwiek
Jun 4, 2013
How do you know you're wealthy? Here's what people in a city that's $15 billion in debt had to say.
How zoning affects the wealth gap
May 6, 2013
Lisa Prevost's new book, 'Snob Zones: Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate,' looks at towns that have used zoning laws to keep low- and middle-income families out, in favor of the rich moving in.
The young and rich: 'Give away our wealth'
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Kai Ryssdal
Mar 25, 2013
It may sound crazy, but a group of wealthy young people is giving their inheritance money away.
Baltimore: You know you're wealthy when...
Mar 1, 2013
People from Baltimore finish the sentence, "You know you're wealthy when..."
For public good, not for profit.
New Orleans residents: You know you're wealthy when...
Jan 28, 2013
In the third installment of Marketplace's "You Know You're Wealthy When" series, we traveled to New Orleans to ask residents of "The Big Easy" what being wealthy means to them.
D.C. residents: You know you're wealthy when...
Jan 17, 2013
How do you define wealth? Chime in and let us know how you would finish this sentence: "You know you're wealthy when..."
Do the wealthy think they're wealthy?
Jan 4, 2013
The tax code may put high earners in the top bracket, but they don't always agree that they are rich.