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During the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the pioneers and innovators in textiles, steel, and railroads were not, on the whole, rewarded with immense riches: their profits were competed away.
This is not, of course, the first time that the discovery of resources in an undeveloped country has led to
riches
for a few rather than greater prosperity for all.
While you were dreaming of real-estate riches, the United States and Europe were hit by the most crippling financial crisis in almost 80 years, and China’s statist economy swiftly overtook Germany and Japan to become the world’s second largest (and, despite its recent slowdown, is poised to surpass the US).
Brexit vs. the Irish QuestionLONDON – On Brexit day – March 29, 2019 – the HMS Buccaneer Britannia will set sail in search of the
riches
of the “Anglosphere.”
It was this process, indeed, that allowed Southeast Asians to begin dreaming of
riches
in the first place.
Investors in the US and the rest of the world believed for this short period that investments in the US guaranteed riches; this contributed to the boom and bust in US technology stocks.
They have also contributed mightily to the high general level of asset prices, helping create the vast
riches
of which today’s hungry young traders are so jealous.
While private wealth management is a growth industry among India’s 200,000 or so nouveaux
riches
, 800 million Indians live on less than $2 per day.
And yet, despite our obvious ability to produce much more than we need, we do not seem to be blessed with an embarrassment of
riches.
These are states with vast
riches.
In March, tens of thousands of mainly young people, led by Navalny, took to the streets to protest the alleged acquisition of untold (and undeserved)
riches
by Dmitry Medvedev, the former president and current prime minister.
But who is Medvedev to amass
riches
at the people’s expense?
Being a pioneer is hardly a guarantee of
riches.
Kenya must learn from these cases, in order to prevent its new oil
riches
from tripping up East Africa in its headlong dash toward monetary union.
The
riches
are indeed vast.
They have read too many phony analyses of the New Economy promising unbounded
riches
and full employment forever.
As with all marine gas and oil deposits, the rights to the waters and the
riches
below are critical.
And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight.
We could even wish them immortal...”The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious possession – their time and energy – pursuing baubles.
More important, export-oriented industrialization, history’s most certain path to riches, may have run its course.
Even the conservative Swiss gave into the temptations of high-tech finance and the
riches
it promised.
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.
Why do oil
riches
turn out to be a curse as often as they are a blessing?
China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self-confident in the knowledge of these powers’ irrelevance.
It does not offer a quick way to riches; it does not double the growth rate; it does not happen by just breathing the air.
Who knows how many Borlaugs there might have been among those enticed by the
riches
of Wall Street and the City of London?
The growing calls of some state officials to deal with economic crime are viewed by the business community as both a mockery of the legal code and a veiled threat that the prosecutors want their cut of Russia's
riches.
So, given its newfound energy riches, one might expect Burma’s public finances to be rather flush, with surpluses aplenty to spend on health, education and much else that the country so desperately needs.
Whatever the precise location of Burma’s riches, these hoards enable the junta to spend at its whim.
What has come to be called money laundering, that is, the attempt to turn illicit gains into legitimate riches, provides one example of the need for action.
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