You are very rich.

The Risky Rich

He wanted to be rich, and he wanted to be famous.

They never passed on any of the wealth.

Its people have become powerful, arrogant, and enormously rich.

It made him rich.

What matters is selling the reserves and being rich now, not finding more for later.

The average citizen has grown poorer, even as those close to the junta become ostentatiously rich.

In practice, however, such tycoon politicians have their own interests and gratifications to pursue.

The way India s political system evolved has made politics the surest path to wealth.

The colony of Hong Kong attracted a large number of Chinese and Westerners to seek their fortune in the city.

The glories of getting rich have overwhelmed the deprivations of patriotic self sacrifice.

The rich and very rich have gotten very much richer, while everyone else s incomes have stagnated.

Some Chinese demographers worry that the country will get old before getting rich.

Financial services would shrink, because the rich would not always want to become richer.

Despite Bo s nostalgia for Maoist rhetoric, he is conspicuously wealthy.

(h) Cultural richness To respect and enhance the historic heritage, authentic culture, traditions and distinctiveness of host communities

Those at the top, in such cases, are enriched at the direct expense of those at the bottom.

They currently are the best opportunities for artists to have lives of economic dignity not opulence of dignity.

During this long period, some get rich first, which means that others lag behind.

As people become richer, their consumption grows more slowly than their wealth.

Two types of contemporary populist, however, stand out the ultra rich business tycoon and the clown.

Mind you, the idea that the ultra rich could easily solve poverty is stupefyingly naïve.

The United States expressed the view that the world encompassed a variety of peoples, places and political circumstances, and that richness did not allow for just one path.

But they are unlikely to want to do so at this point, even if the US political system allowed it.

But, as societies become richer, the demands of the electorate become more nuanced.

As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing making things inevitably becomes less important.

This painting is described by a critic as an allusion to the embarrassments of affluence resting on a tattered Philippine flag.

Cases have been referred to the Court from all regions, and it is noted that the subject matter of those cases is extremely rich and varied.

Who knows how many Borlaugs there might have been among those enticed by the riches of Wall Street and the City of London?

Many people have been lifted out of poverty, and those with the right political connections have become enormously rich.

No one can remain safe and secure, or even content, while living in an oasis of wealth surrounded by a desert of poverty.

Blair himself seems to prefer to have friends who are very rich and who will lend him their holiday villas in Tuscany.

Let s be realistic people like Buffett and Bill Gates have very few followers even among the very rich in the US.

Promising to spread the riches that they have made for themselves, they exploit the fantasies of those of us who have little and want more.

This is how Argentina grew rich in the nineteenth century, and how oil states have become wealthy during the last 40 years.

So what happened was, the people who happened to be in the right place at the right time the people who happened to be leading the gang in the mid to late '80s became very, very wealthy.

There is no shame in being poor in China if one reflects that one s children or grandchildren will be wealthy and successful.

True, with only 16 countries rich enough to be included in the survey, the correlation isn't perfect.

The world encompassed a variety of peoples, places and political circumstances, and that richness did not allow for just one path.

Societies have also differed in how wealthy they allow their elites to become, and in their tolerance of the means by which wealth is acquired and used.

Newly enriched countries need to take several more steps in order to increase the likelihood of a resource blessing.

And we can hope that these capital flows will carry with them the institutions and managerial expertise that have made the core so wealthy.

It is widely believed that such a strategy would be useless if the only effect is to allow others to get rich faster by opting out.

Europe s cultural richness consists precisely in its diversity, and the basis for its finest achievements has been competition between people, institutions, and places.