The Changing Face of Fortune

The Changing Face of Fortune

Now a new generation of inheritors has risen to take their place atop Bloomberg's just-released list of the world's richest families. The Walton family, heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton, bring home the gold with $238.2 billion. The Mars family, descendants of secretive Forrest Mars, bring home the silver with $141.9 billion. (Folks sure do eat a lot of M&Ms.) Finally, the Koch family brings home the bronze with $124.4 billion. (Kind of fascinating how the money gets made in cities like Bentonville and Wichita before getting squandered in places like New York City, right?)

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

The pandemic wiped out 20 million jobs, yet employers are struggling to hire while employees reevaluate their post-pandemic plans. Can you spin your old position into a work-from-home opportunity? Should you take advantage of soaring housing prices to make a killing and move somewhere cheaper? Is now finally the time to step off the urban treadmill for that simple life you always said you wanted?

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