Tag: spending

U.S. inequality can be measured two ways – by wealth or by earnings. Either way, most working Americans are losing out. It’s the 1920s again for the richest 1 percent of Americans, and a recent analysis of the wealth gap illustrates why they’re able to live like the fictional Jay Gatsby, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio…

U.S. dollars go a long way in Indonesia. Adam Shepard estimates that it cost him $19,420.68 to circumnavigate the globe from October 2011 through September 2012. It was a budget tour filled with simple pleasures and wild adventures for the failed professional basketball player and successful book author. He helped poor children in Honduras, hugged…