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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Business and financial interests, in particular, are delighted with the outcome, crowing about the bonanza about to be unleashed as Congress liberalizes India s economy further.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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. One dividing line is between societies that tolerate self enrichment through politics, and those that demand that the two spheres be kept separate.

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

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

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.

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

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.

You might suspect that such a country is either phenomenally rich or on the fast track to fiscal crisis.

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

Lula remains popular with Brazilians because his populist rhetoric shows real sympathy with the less affluent, and with foreign investors because he has always tempered his radicalism to accommodate economic reality.

The world was getting steadily richer, but the income distribution within countries was becoming steadily more unequal.

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.

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.

If a few bankers get much richer, average income can go up, even as most individuals incomes are declining.

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