The average homeowner feels wealthier as a result.In this section The hottest frontier Where did all the money go?
How much money would you need to feel wealthy?
"Clearly, our consumer doesn't feel wealthy," Mr. Sadove said.
The most effective way to feel wealthy may not be to try to make more money.
The stock market makes people feel wealthy, encouraging them to spend.
It's the current job and its future prospects that make people feel wealthy or poor.
When asked what it would take to feel wealthy, about half of the respondents chose $5 million.
Wealthier people, she said, seemed to resolve divorces more easily — perhaps because they still felt wealthy in the aftermath.
Whatever the policy debates, households at President Obama's dividing line might be wealthy, but that doesn't mean they feel wealthy.
Because consumers still feel wealthy thanks to the rise in share and (until recently) house prices.Furthermore, look at the extraordinary success of the financial sector.
