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The gap between America's super-wealthy and the rest of us has grown so vast it's hard to even comprehend the sums they spend on their luxuries. But if you measure, say, a $200 million luxury yacht in terms of the average U.S. family's household income, the picture comes back into focus.

NBC executives appear ready to move Jay Leno back to late night TV. The Leno disaster, which will cost the network tens of millions of dollars, was avoidable, and will likely be discussed in business schools for decades to come.