This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

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54% of Americans believe they are in the middle class, and 52% of them actually are. Middle class status varies with location, with higher levels of income needed to make the cut in more expensive, ...

"Why are a few really, really rich people getting poorer?" asked Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki in a blunt post on X on April 25. Kiyosaki, a well-known financial educator, pointed directly ...

Most Americans believe that money is a taboo subject. It's considered rude to discuss how much money you make or how much things cost. Flaunting your wealth is seen as incredibly classless and is ...