Global household wealth falls in 2011-2012. Worldwide household wealth, in the sense of financial assets and real estate owned by households, fell by 5.2% in dollars between the summer of 2011 and the summer of 2012, according to the Global Wealth Report published by Crédit Suisse Research Institute. This is the first fall since the 2007-2008 financial crisis and it is particularly sharp in Europe, where the total drop in household wealth was US$ 10.9 billion. This is by far the biggest...