The number of millionaires in the United States jumped by 16 percent last year after slumping by 27 percent in 2008, a report released Tuesday shows. Last year, some 7.8 million US households had a million dollars or more in investable assets -- not counting capital invested in their primary residence, the report by the Spectrem Group shows. That was up by 1.1 million from the year before, when the number of US millionaires fell to its lowest point since 2003, hitting 6.7 million as the US economy stumbled.
Last year, some 7.8 million US households had a million dollars or more in investable assets -- not counting capital invested in their primary residence, the report by the Spectrem Group shows.
That was up by 1.1 million from the year before, when the number of US millionaires fell to its lowest point since 2003, hitting 6.7 million as the US economy stumbled.
But the dollar was up in 2008 after the panic hit and everybody dove for liquidity, and the number of millionaires still declined a lot.
All this really means is that asset prices were up in 2009. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
The staff have been told to choose between a pay freeze and redundancy - while the CEO has had a pay rise of nearly £100k, and is now earning a modest half million or so.
Or rather, that's the salary component. There's extra for stock options, and such.
