Personal wealth experts say that although Mr. Hayden's situation is an extreme one, it was not at all unusual for people whose wealth existed mostly on paper to live as if it were otherwise.
Yet economists and wealth experts say the economic distance between 1-percenters in rich states and the 1-percenters in middling or even affluent states has widened drastically, creating a new national landscape of the 1percentt.
But if the numbers hold, historians and wealth experts say that next month's elections may prove to be the largest vote by the wealthy for a Democratic candidate in recent history.
"They see works of art on their walls," Mr. Curiel said, "and think, 'If I want to be not just a millionaire but someone who plays with the big boys, I'd better be someone who collects art.' " The surge in Chinese collecting is not just a reflection of new wealth, experts say, but also a reaction to the repressive Mao years when the country was denied culture.
That said, I worked with Moneytips to research how 19 of the most influential finance and wealth experts managed their own money and the results are an impressive accumulation of financial strategy in one visual infographic.
The report won't automatically trigger explicit penalties, but those who find their name in its pages have reason to fear they will become instantly radioactive in the elite upper reaches of Western financial institutions, effectively putting a big crimp in their extravagant lifestyles and limiting their ability to exploit their own astronomical wealth, experts said.
When it comes to persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, disarmament experts say there is a wealth of expert knowledge to draw from, as well as smaller lessons from a range of deals in the past.
The wealthy are a minority who are being unfairly vilified and used as a "scapegoat", according to a wealth psychology expert.
The lessons of the past go some way to explaining Vancouver's almost religious embrace of multiculturalism, says David Ley, a UBC geography professor and wealth migration expert.
