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Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ every day Americans gave a record $617 billion—despite feeling the squeeze over the cost of living
Donations from individuals hit 394B last year, but a 17 rise in bequests points to a shift in philanthropy driven by the Great Wealth Transfer.
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DNyuz
· Jun 21, 2026
Elon Musk Confirms Ancient Concerns About the Superrich
Ever since Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, people have been trying to grasp the scale of his incomprehensible fortune. Some have noted that a stack of 100 bills amounting to 1 trillion would extend 679 miles high. The economist Steven Durlauf has observed that John D. Rockefeller’s wealth at one point equaled about []
Inc.com
· Jul 8, 2026
The New ‘Cash-Poor’ Is Six Figures and Up
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Off The Press
· Jun 30, 2026
UBS: Record 441K New US Millionaires in 2025
The United States added 441,078 new millionaires in 2025 — more than 1,200 a day and nearly half of all new millionaires worldwide — marking the fastest expansion of seven-figure wealth on record, according to the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026. The Swiss bank’s annual survey across 56 markets put the total U.S. millionaire population []...Click to read more
Fortune
· Jun 30, 2026
America added more than 1,200 millionaires per day in 2025, but the heyday of the ‘everyday millionaire’ is already over
The stock market made a record number of people millionaires in 2025. But the real wealth action was happening one tier up.
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· Jun 27, 2026
Why is it so hard to get by on $130,000 per year?
Which is it is: (gift link) President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-term solutions nor offering short-term relief. If they paid attention to different indicators of Americans’ financial health, beyond top-line growth and other traditional measures of economic success, they might feel more urgency. So we developed one: a model budget for a [] The post Why is it so hard to get by on 130,000 per year? appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.
Nepal News
· Jul 3, 2026
शुक्रबार सुनको मूल्य ७ हजार २ सय रुपैयाँ बढ्यो
काठमाडौँ। स्थानीय बजारमा आज सुनचाँदीको मूल्य बढेको छ। नेपाल सुनचाँदी ब्यवसायी महासंघका अनुसार आज सुनको मूल्य प्रतितोलामा ७ हजार २ सय रुपैयाँले बढेर २ लाख ९० हजार ७ सय रुपैयाँ कायम भएको छ। बिहीबार सुनको मूल्य प्रतितोला दुई लाख ८३ हजार ५०० रुपैयाँ कायम भएको थियो। यस्तै, बिहीबार चाँदीको मूल्य पनि बढेको छ। महासंघका अनुसार चाँदीको []
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