{"id":544826,"date":"2026-03-25T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:30:10","slug":"americas-super-rich-are-quietly-multiplying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544826\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Super-Rich Are Quietly Multiplying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        A growing slice of Americans are quietly sliding into the &#8220;ultrawealthy&#8221; lane, and reshaping the economy as they go. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/wealthy-americans-us-economy-dba0d26a?mod=djem10point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> charts the rise of households worth tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, a group that now numbers about 430,000 in the US with at least $30 million, and roughly 74,000 with $100 million or more, per economist Owen Zidar&#8217;s analysis of Federal Reserve data. Their ranks have expanded far faster than the overall population, powered by soaring stock prices, high-value private investments, and the spiking worth of small and midsize businesses.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman find that, adjusted for inflation, the top 0.1% have seen their wealth multiply more than 13-fold over a half-century, while the bottom half of households only climbed back into positive territory after pandemic-era aid and rising home values. For the ultrawealthy, roughly 72% of assets sit in stocks and private businesses, not houses. Two-thirds of households with $30 million or more are helmed by baby boomers, and their spending is driving demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/realestate\/billionaire-miami-real-estate-zuckerburg.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ultra-pricey homes<\/a>, luxury hotels, and trips on private jets. (Curious what the super-rich eat on vacation? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/deajusufi\/2026\/03\/23\/superyacht-chefs-reveal-what-the-ultra-wealthy-eat-on-vacation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a> has the scoop.)&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A growing slice of Americans are quietly sliding into the &#8220;ultrawealthy&#8221; lane, and reshaping the economy as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[19603,28,101,11939,920],"class_list":["post-544826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-baby-boomers","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-luxury-travel","tag-sp-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}