Simply put, being rich usually means you have a high income, but being really rich or wealthy means you've accumulated enough assets and net worth to sustain your lifestyle without relying on your job ...

Mr. Stephens-Davidowitz is the author of “Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life,” from which this essay is adapted. We now know who is rich in America. And it’s not who ...

While the Trump Tax Plan was touted as a huge tax cut, many millions of Americans will still see their taxes go up in 2018. Residents of high-tax states like California, New York and New Jersey are ...

Becoming rich isn’t easy, especially if you’re starting from scratch and not getting an inheritance. It takes a lot of hard work. But as it turns out, it’s almost just as hard to define what being ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Host of the Retire Sooner podcast and CFP™ practitioner. The IRS might describe it as landing in the top tax bracket—paying a 37% ...

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A few weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling held that the race-conscious admission programs of Harvard University and the University of North ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 8, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. This week, the NBA Finals tip off, and perhaps no one will be watching more closely than ...

"For me, this is the character that defines Blindspot in a lot of ways," says creator Martin Gero of Rich DotCom, a beloved character who started as a chaotic criminal hacker. Gero's old friend Ennis ...

The fatal shooting of a young Democratic Party aide named Seth Rich early in the morning of July 10, 2016, brought incalculable loss to his parents. Within days, Joel and Mary Rich then had to endure ...