Only one percent of Americans can claim to be millionaires, yet 44 percent of members of Congress are millionaires according to the Center for Responsive Politics. CRP argues that more transparency in financial disclosure requirements is needed.

The Spanish painter Luis Barba unveiled his latest work at this years Art Basel Miami Beach--an art show patronised by millionaires. The painting, a rework of Hieronymus Bosch's triptych the "Millennium" shows modern celebrities in Bosch's landscape.

The NY Times estimates there are 1,000 Google employees who took stock options when they were hired that are now worth over $5 million. In one such story, Bonnie Brown was given thousands of shares when she began as an in-house masseuse five years ago.

With the rising inflation levels, Zimbabwe’s currency has fallen to record levels, one million Zimbabwean dollars (ZWD) is worth only a single US dollar (USD). Inflation has risen 8,000 percent.

Soaring stock markets in Hong Kong and China helped swell the number of US dollar millionaires in Hong Kong by 12.2 per cent to 87,000 at the end of 2006, local media reported Thursday.

OK. here’s $$$$WEIRD. Those poor bastards in SV are really struggling. It’s hard to sympathize. We have here an article about the kind of priorities and values that have nothing to do with the rest of the world.

Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 35, and her husband, Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51 will be allowed to post a $3.5 million dollars bail but they do have conditions attached. They are accused of keeping two Indonesian woman as slaves.

Residents of this trailer-park town sitting on beachfront property have voted overwhelmingly to sell their community to a developer for more than $510 million, which could make most of them millionaires.

Defeated Senator, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, had a desk on the Senate floor that was always full of candy and was being raided by members of the Senate.

Many people believe that having more money in life (being millionaires, billionaires) would make them happy - at least fix their present problems. However, the truth is that your life could be better without having so much money.

"We have allowed the elected leaders in this country (America) to work against us at every turn, knowing full well that they are lying through their teeth in order to turn sovereign America into a global region."

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