If you think gas is expensive at the peak of summer driving season, try to imagine paying $20 a gallon.  Forbes staff writer Christopher Steiner has, and it's a future that looks surprisingly rosy, that is, if we get ourselves on track.

And...even in these turbulent economic times, there are people who are truly thriving.  Randall Jones has talked to 100 of them.   We'll discover what he learned about money and life by interviewing "The Richest Man in Town."