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A vast amount of wealth is being created over the next ten years. Here's why--and how you can be a part of it.

As an economist, I watch large-scale trends in the economy, often measured in billions or trillions of dollars.

But people don’t often grasp the meaning of billions and trillions. We aren’t really concerned about “the economy”—we’re concerned about “our economy.” We want to know, “What can I do in this new economy to succeed, to take care of myself and my family?” I wrote The Next Millionaires to explain where our economy has been, where it is today, and where it’s going—but even more importantly, to bring all of this down to the level of “your economy.”

Since 1991, U.S. household wealth quadrupled from $13 trillion to about $52 trillion in 2005. Reading such figures, you might say, “That’s interesting… ” But it becomes very personal when we look at what this means to entrepreneurs involved in the most economically vibrant industries.

This growth is occurring not only among an exclusive group of the already-rich, but throughout a broad demographic that includes millions of “ordinary people.” I call this the “democratization of American wealth.”

The Democratization of American Wealth

In 1991, there were 3.6 million American families with a net worth of $1 million or more. Today, there are more than 10 million such families and we are adding new millionaire families at the rate of one million per year.

You can see dramatic evidence of this at the very top echelon of U.S. wealth, the billionaires on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. When this list was released in 1981, it contained mostly familiar names such as Rockefeller, Astor and Morgan and represented a significant portion of total U.S. household wealth. Twenty-four years later, only 40 of the original 400 remain on the list, and the wealth of all 400 combined is only $1 trillion, less than 2 percent of the $52 trillion in U.S. household wealth. The extremely rich, the top 10 on the list, account for almost 25 percent of the $1 trillion total, but when we look closer, we see that all of these top 10 were born poor or middle-class.

Over the next 10 years, as U.S. household wealth doubles to $100 trillion, at least $10 trillion of that new wealth will represent new entrepreneurs coming to the table. That $10 trillion represents another 10 million new millionaires.

A great opportunity lies ahead, not for just a chosen few, but for literally millions of “ordinary people,” individual entrepreneurs who were not born into wealthy families, but who choose to apply themselves in the new and emerging industries where this new wealth is being created. Two of the strongest emerging industries where this growth will occur are wellness and network marketing.