From rare Rolexes and Birkin bags to multimillion-dollar art collections, wealthy borrowers are unlocking quick cash from luxury assets—skipping banks and paperwork in favor of speed and discretion.

In today’s politics, you don’t need a solution — you just need someone to blame. And more often than not, that someone is “the rich.” Say “Billionaires shouldn’t exist,” and the crowd cheers. Say ...

When 98.5 The Sports Hub started assembling its lineup of programs for its August 2009 launch, one of program director Mike Thomas’s crucial moves was putting Fred Toucher and Rich Shertenlieb in ...

Wealth taxes were once common among advanced economies. Nearly all turned against them as costly to administer, easy to avoid and punitive toward investment. Unfortunately, politicians from Copenhagen ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hailed a proposed annual surcharge on some owners of second homes in the city as an important step in his pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy. “I always said that I ...

Why petty theft might be the new political protest. By Nadja SpiegelmanHasan Piker and Jia Tolentino Produced by Vishakha Darbha When does shoplifting become an act of political protest? The Opinion ...

A campaign to impose a tax on California’s wealthiest residents is moving closer to voters, as organizers claim they have gathered enough signatures to qualify the proposal for the state ballot; ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's video celebrating the pied-à-terre tax plan outside a prominent billionaire’s Central Park South home is sparking a backlash from members of New York City’s business community ...

The Autumn Budget doesn’t appear to have done much to stop wealthy people contemplating leaving the UK. Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a series of tax hikes in her Autumn Budget in November 2025 ...

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...

Baby boomers hold more than $85 trillion in assets, making them the richest generation by far. New research explores the extraordinary rise in their good fortunes — one that experts say successive ...