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Good fortune, that is, for the CCP, not for China and its people.
MacKay gave examples, over the centuries, of social epidemics involving belief in alchemists, prophets of Judgment Day, fortune tellers, astrologers, physicians employing magnets, witch hunters, and crusaders.
More recently, Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested on suspicion that he amassed a fortune of roughly $1.5 billion during his father’s presidency, when he held senior ministerial positions.
The Bo family, press reports allege, not only has amassed a huge fortune, but also was involved in the murder of a Westerner who had served as the family’s chief private conduit to the outside world.
Otherwise, the region will continue to lag, and its people will continue to seek their fortune elsewhere.
I have made a fortune in the world financial markets, and yet I now fear that untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering the future of our open and democratic society.
Fishery resources are over-exploited; animal husbandry suffers a similar lack of rigorous management; and the country spends a fortune buying the meat and milk that it could easily produce for itself if farmers had the proper incentives.
If the French ultimately succumb to fear, electing populist bigots, the struggling Islamic State (ISIS) will have scored a major victory – one that could potentially lead to a reversal of fortune for it.
If applied, bank capital will be scarcer, the flow of credit slower, and bank fees higher in countries with pretty stable financial sectors, simply because others have spent a fortune to support their financial systems – and because the European Commission never misses an opportunity to unify rules across the EU.
By contrast, a French taxpayer with the same income pays only €9,000; with two children, the tax bill plummets to €3,000, and a €1.5 million fortune would mean an additional wealth tax of only €4,230.
This reversal of fortune for the economy partly, though far from fully, reflects broader pressure created by the US dollar’s recent appreciation – a process that is set to accelerate, because both monetary-policy and growth differentials are now favoring the United States.
Universities, pension funds, churches, banks, and even the heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune are pulling their money out of fossil-fuel assets or are considering the possibility of divestment – an option made increasingly attractive by the swiftly falling cost of renewable energy.
For 50 years, Buffett, now 75, has worked at accumulating a vast fortune.
Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.
Hosting this year’s G-8 summit reportedly cost Canada a fortune, despite the absence of any significant results.
The motives behind such voting patterns may vary – some voters made a fortune during the economic recovery, while others are simply satisfied with the status quo.
Private-sector investors ought to be more than willing to kick in that $35 billion, for they stand to make a fortune when financial asset prices close some of the gap between their current and normal values.
Time alone will tell whether the financiers who invest in and run this program make a fortune.
But if they do, they will make the US government an even bigger fortune.
We will not always have the good fortune to be able to use different methods and still arrive at virtually the same line.
On the contrary, dictatorships have historically fallen, regardless of the fortune of Western democracies.
In short, China is aggressively protecting the economic growth that is transforming the lives of its citizens, instead of spending a fortune battling a problem that is unlikely to affect it negatively until next century.
For a country that has made a fortune investing in Eastern Europe, Germany’s relative backwardness in these areas is stunning.
NEW DELHI – Marc Andreessen made his first fortune writing the code that became Netscape Navigator, the Internet browser.
He and his family built up empires within the local economy, cornering nearly all sectors and making a fortune for themselves.
And sometimes it is simply a long run of good fortune, which leaves the market dominated by unrealistic optimists.
The South Paris workers’ good fortune lasted for just 14 years.
Selling the franchise of a university or a museum to a Gulf state, building yet another enormous stadium in China, or making a fortune out of soccer favors to Russia or Qatar is progressive, anti-racist, and a triumph of global fraternity and universal values.
We all have the good fortune to be alive during a period of extraordinary technological potential.
The rule_of_thumb in high technology has been that the market leader makes a fortune, the first_runner_up breaks even, and everyone else goes bankrupt.
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