Four in Ten Million-Plus Earners Vanish in Two Years

We spotted this today:

"The piece highlighted IRS figures showing that the number of American tax filers with incomes of $1 million or more had declined by 39% between 2007 and 2009. In 2009, there were 237,000 million-plus earners, down from 390,000 in 2007.

In other words, four in ten million-plus earners vanished in two years. "

Statistics Source: WSJ

We have written about the number of millionaires in the world before.