{"id":686601,"date":"2010-03-09T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003027"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:41:27","slug":"number-of-millionaires-in-u-s-bounced-back-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/686601","title":{"rendered":"Number Of Millionaires In U.S. Bounced Back In 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/millyunz-thumb-240x160-37926.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for any sort of sign that the economy might not be as ill-fated as it occasionally appears, here&#8217;s something for you. A new study shows that, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/new-survey-shows-layoffs-flattening-out-a-few-new-jobs-to-come.html\">job market may be flat<\/a>, the number of millionaires in the U.S. is on the rise, with the number of households worth at least $1 million up 16% from last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Spectrem Group study, there are now 7.8 million millionaire households in the U.S., a big increase from last year&#8217;s total of 6.7 million households. This is a total net worth of the household that includes the value of all assets <i>except<\/i> their primary residence.<\/p>\n<p>This comes only a year after a 27% drop in the previous year, which followed a record high of 9.2 million households in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there was an increase of 17% in families worth at least $5 million and a 12% increase in households worth $500,000 or more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6282M220100309\" >U.S. millionaire ranks up 16 percent last year: study<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for any sort of sign that the economy might not be as ill-fated as it occasionally appears, here&#8217;s something for you. A new study shows that, while the job market may be flat, the number of millionaires in the U.S. is on the rise, with the number of households worth at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SCd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}