USAToday:
Call it millionaire mania, the get-rich-quick syndrome gone wild. What’s with our obsession with bagging that magic $1 million? Ever since money became our mantra, dreamers and schemers have fixated on a million bucks as their most-prized jackpot. If you land that elusive fortune, or even come close, you’ve truly made it. ‘In the 1950s and 1960s, having a good job and owning a home was the American Dream,’ says Loral Langemeier,author of best seller The Millionaire Maker and head of financial consulting firm Live Out Loud in San Rafael, Calif. ‘Now, being a millionaire is the new status symbol. It means you’ve arrived.’
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Millionaire madness fills our popular culture, literature and business lore. Just look around…
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