"For years those pushing kids to go to college noted that there was a huge and growing earnings differential between high school and college graduates, making college a good investment even with soaring tuition fees. I have argued that the end to that rising income differential, along with higher fees, is now lowering the rate of return on the financial investment of going to college, and markets are starting to respond as manifested in falling enrollments.
But there is another, arguably even better measure of economic well being than income, namely wealth. Forbes does not publish a list of the 400 Americans with the highest incomes, but rather those who have accumulated the most wealth." …