Eliminate extremes of wealth

Extremes of poverty are linked to extremes of wealth.

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

Ideology and profiteering have also played a role in driving up the war s costs.

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.

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

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

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

The Kuchma regime s vast wealth, stolen from ordinary Ukrainians, suggested that the reign of thuggery and deceit could go on forever.

I believe that women who don't wear the hijab and those who wear indecent clothing have weak beliefs, are not cultured and civilised in their thinking and are irresponsible.

The super rich had one over riding objective in joining the Bush coalition tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest households.

Others say that this is not an option in Khodorkovsky's case being very rich, he could easily jump bail and flee abroad.

New Labour's Peter Mandelson voiced the spirit of the past 30 years when he remarked that he felt intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

The attitude of indifference to income distribution is in fact a recipe for economic growth without end, with the rich, very rich, and super rich drawing ever further ahead of the rest.

George W. Bush s economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces the super rich and evangelical Christians.

Since extracting commercial interest rates from starving people seemed like usury, the loans had to be offered on a concessionary basis in effect, aid.

In today s Russia, for example, property rights do not enjoy widespread popular support, because so many of the country s fabulously wealthy oligarchs are seen as having acquired their wealth through dubious means.

Even in normal times, the super rich depend on government support and action. It is largely the government that has financed the fundamental research that produced the information technology revolution and the firms (such as Apple and Microsoft) that it has spawned.

Arab Spring governments condemned the outrageous movie smearing the Prophet of Islam, but they should have stressed that American official and unofficial bodies had nothing to do with the film s production.

At the same time, there has been a massive global redistribution of income from oil importers to oil exporters a disproportionate number of which are undemocratic states and from workers everywhere to the very rich.

Football clubs have become the status symbols of newly rich tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, and international competitions, especially the World Cup, have become occasions to bolster the prestige, and sometimes even the legitimacy, of national governments.

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In this regard, efforts to eradicate poverty must include an earnest re evaluation of global systems and processes including governance, trade, and the private transactions that perpetuate the growing extremes of wealth and poverty.

This did not start under Blatter. It was his predecessor, the sinister Brazilian João Havelange, who turned FIFA into a corrupt and vastly rich empire by incorporating more and more developing countries, whose votes for the bosses were bought with all manner of lucrative marketing and media deals.