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Of course investors who believe that their wealth is securely liquid, and that they are adding value for themselves by buying and selling are suffering from a delusion.
Our financial wealth is not liquid in an emergency.
Psychologically, we are naturally impatient, so it is good for us to believe that our wealth is safe and secure, and that we can add to it through skillful acts of investment, because that delusion makes us behave less impatiently.
They have recovered well: whereas the world’s richest 1% of households owned 42.5% of all wealth in 2008, they own 50.1% today.
No matter how you slice the data on wealth and income, the super-rich are doing very well, and the gap between them and median-income earners – not to mention the poor – continues to widen.
If all of a country’s wealth were to be aggregated into one pot, the temptation for looting would be too great.
Many of Ukraine’s richest citizens, who gained their wealth through the crony capitalism that is the only way Yanukovych knows how to govern, remain unreconciled to Ukraine’s democracy.
Southeast Asia represents but a fraction of China’s size and wealth.
Indeed, it has simply taken new forms, partly owing to economic and technical progress - and with it an increase in available wealth - and partly owing to efforts aimed at allaying it.
Still more probably, it might confine politics to the day-to-day management of redistributing wealth among groups that coexist in the same society but do not necessarily share much else.
For without a common political identity on which to base social solidarity, redistribution of wealth by the welfare state loses its legitimacy.
This was easily accomplished, given Bolivia's memory of its losses: the loss of its seacoast to Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879, of coca crops to the US eradication program, and the country's mineral wealth to transnational corporations.
International sanctions, it now seems, were the door through which China rushed to gain access to Africa’s mineral wealth for its voracious industries.
Dividend payments made by under-capitalized banks amount to a substantial wealth transfer from subordinated bondholders to shareholders, because it is bondholders who will suffer the losses in a crisis.
Moreover, it is potentially a wealth transfer from taxpayers to private shareholders, because under new banking rules government bailouts are possible after bondholders have covered (bailed in) 8% of a bank’s equity and liabilities.
The 2008 global financial crisis, the resulting recession, and rapidly widening income and wealth inequality have punctured the glib triumphalism of economics.
Furthermore, after more than three decades of rapid income growth, China has accumulated wealth (or net assets) in almost all sectors.
Giacomo Corneo of the Free University of Berlin has proposed that, in addition to taxing underused real estate, China should create a sovereign wealth fund to improve the management of public assets.
On one hand, Pakistan is seeking large investments from China to improve its physical infrastructure and exploit its considerable mineral wealth.
The World Bank estimates that natural capital constitutes a quarter of total wealth in low-income countries, compared to 3% in the highly developed economies.
That’s why we keep allowing ourselves to be talked into supporting unjust wars (not to mention actually dying in them), or voting for people whose main job seems to be to amass as much wealth for the rich as they can get away with.
The care taken in augmenting and preserving the wealth that current generations inherited from their ancestors is the ultimate reason for economic growth and capitalism’s success.
Massive government interventions during the crisis have undermined this principle, and have probably already destroyed much of the inherited wealth.
Considered the “energy of the poor” until today, biomass could become a source of wealth if it is grown and harnessed with the support of the international community.
Extra investment in the sector could contribute 5% to employment by 2030, and the additional wealth created could drive up labor demand, boosting employment by another 12%.
A conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran would also be a fight over the vast oil riches of the Arabia Peninsula and the enormous financial wealth of small Sunni states like Kuwait and Qatar.
Only by such a program can Russia hope to eventually play an effective - not merely obstructive - role in developing the oil wealth of the Caucasus.
Despite a wealth of opportunities across the Russian economy, the country’s hostile business climate – including bloated bureaucracies, widespread corruption, and the expansion of state-owned companies – has weakened Russian and foreign investors’ incentive to start new projects or expand existing ones.
Understanding how migration can build wealth in Africa requires closer attention to migratory trends.
Other inequality indicators – like wealth, health, and life expectancy – are as bad or even worse.
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