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Given that you stand a 1-in-175,711,536 chance of winning the Mega Millions lottery, you might try becoming a millionaire with a more practical strategy. Your odds aren't so bad as it is. One-in-106 Americans is a millionaire, according to a recent article in Investopedia. And 31% of the world's...

Wealthy investors now have more confidence in the economy than they've had in nearly three years, according to Chicago consulting firm Spectrem, which manages the Spectrem Millionaire Investor Confidence Index.

For most taxpayers, 2008 wasn't a year to remember. As a whole, incomes and profits tumbled while foreclosures and job losses soared. We saw the anecdotal evidence in the headlines and photos splashed across the media. (Meanwhile, unscrupulous Wall Street types took greed and avarice to a whole new...

There's a fire sale on naming buildings across the country. Wait, strike that, fire sale might not be the best phrase to describe naming a new library or outpatient wing; perhaps "clearance on immortality at charities nationwide" is a better fit. Over the last year, thanks to the economy; we've...

Talk about dreams really coming true.An actress who played Snow White at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., won the $5.2 million jackpot Saturday on the "Make Me a Millionaire" show by the California Lottery.Natalie Marston, 22, was working as Snow White when she bought a lottery ticket in February....

...Actually, quite a bit. Getting your body in shape and getting your finances in shape have more in common than you might think. In a recent interview with Andrea Metcalf I found out just how alike these two endeavors really are, and conversely learning how you can get in shape cheap and save...

Exactly how much money does it take to feel rich? A new survey by Fidelity Investments suggests that hitting the old $1 million in assets mark isn't what it used to be. In its third, annual Millionaire Outlook, released Wednesday, Fidelity found that 46 percent of wealthy Americans who described...

In this day and age, becoming a millionaire is a goal that most people have. With the fed printing money like Germany circa 1923, if your net worth is much lower than that when you hit retirement age, it could be a tough time.So how are you doing on that quest? I found a really cool How long until...

Imagine becoming a multi-millionaire on jobs that never paid you more than $11 an hour. A man in New Jersey did just that, in a striking rebuff to these over-leveraged times.Paul Navone was a thrifty man, a mill worker, who never made more than $11 an hour. He only shopped at thrift stores and...