It's when people's fortunes are correlated.

Western fortunes are rising, slowly but surely.

Fortunes

Companies are the makers of their fortunes, and like all of us, they are utterly exposed to serendipity.

Don t worry, Russia s oligarchs are not starving, but the fortunes of many of them have collapsed.

Who they are will have a major impact on the fortunes and prospects of one sixth of humanity.

Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are heirs to a long line of preachers and politicians who made their fortunes by stirring up anxious crowds, promising them Heaven on Earth, or at least a place in Heaven.

Indeed, no private equity fortunes were made over the past generation without investing in or trading with the prosperous North Atlantic industrial core of the world economy.

Otherwise, financial destabilization will threaten the fortunes of the very rich.

Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

He started out in the importing business, but made his and his family's fortune (which was one of the largest fortunes of the 19th century) in mining and smelting.

And among the Desert Arabs are those who consider their contribution to be a fine . And they wait for a reversal of your fortunes .

Alas, if they are allowed to run the show, Ukraine might face more redistribution of fortunes than cleansing of corruption, letting the revolutionary public down.

It's the downside correlation of their fortunes that will become more and more possible.

And all Chinese are gasping in the same polluted air. But at least the Han Chinese can feel pride in the revival of their national fortunes.

Negotiations for a real budget that all sides can live with are beginning. And assessments of how the shutdown will affect the Republican Party s fortunes in the 2014 midterm elections are rife.

All that is left is to restore the fortunes of England s national football and cricket teams.

Carnegie argued that those who thrive in business and acquire huge personal fortunes are better at judging how the world really works, and thus are better qualified to judge where resources should be directed.

Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

There have been successes as well as setbacks in a year of mixed fortunes for the Organization.

The trials and tribulations faced by the Mission during the crisis of 2000, the measures taken to reverse its fortunes, and its achievements between 2001 and today, are indeed remarkable.

And for many of us, our fortunes do indeed lie at the bottom of the pyramid. Thank you.

But then fortunes rapidly diverged, with a few Western industrialized countries quickly achieving political and economic dominance worldwide.

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Indeed, with China bent on unification, it refuses even to define relations with Taiwan as bilateral, while China's growing global influence suggests that Taiwan's diplomatic fortunes are not about to improve.

Indeed, the US is seen as practically complicit in inciting a monumental reversal of Islam s fortunes, the Shia revival.

But a large reversal in the fortunes of rich and poor countries seems neither economically likely, nor politically feasible.

As Ukraine s European prospects diminish, the economy and thus the oligarchs fortunes will be exposed to the Russian siloviki s untender mercies.

As a result, Chinese may operate family farms, own homes and businesses, control their educational choices, patent inventions, and amass fortunes.

But the popularity of the handout option raises an important and instructive question just how did the ruling classes in these countries amass fortunes so large that people are clamoring for them to be redistributed?

But, rather than focusing on the government s weaknesses energy, Europe, education, and family policy they bet their political fortunes on social justice.

He has both money the government s budget and the oligarchs fortunes and the coercive power of the state firmly in his hand.

Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner s political fortunes.

Among the Bedouins are those who regard what they spend as a loss , and they watch for a reversal of your fortunes . Theirs shall be an adverse turn of fortune , and Allah is all hearing , all knowing .

Philanthropists like Mo Ibrahim and George Soros or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can use their fortunes to make the world a better place.

Many Saudis sense a wasted opportunity despite sitting atop one of history s most liquid fortunes, the country has failed to become an advanced economy.

With the subsequent oil boom, one would have expected the fortunes of Chadians and Cameroonians to improve at the individual, local, and national levels.

Some of them righteous , and some of them short of that . And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes , so that they may return .

Some of them righteous , and some of them short of that . And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes , so that they may return .

These are just a few examples of the vast misuse of the country s resources, owing to the marked preference of Senegal s elite to use import licenses to build up their own fortunes rather than develop import substitution industries.

But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor.

In 1974, the touted Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition never materialized, as the Liberal Democrats were wary of hitching their fortunes to an unpopular and discredited politician.

The great nineteenth and early twentieth century financiers, men like J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick, and Andrew Mellon, spent a large part of their fortunes on art.

Successful people, according to Carnegie, should retire from business while they still retain those talents and devote their remaining years to spending their fortunes on philanthropy.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.