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I found a brilliant aeronautical engineer who designs sails for America's Cup racing yachts named Peter Heppel.
Some of us are sitting there safe and sound in gigantic private yachts.
If the only thing that money determined was access to yachts or fancy vacations or BMWs, then inequality wouldn't matter very much.
Or alternatively, we could do nothing, hide in our gated communities and private schools, enjoy our planes and yachts — they're fun — and wait for the pitchforks.
They had gone to the lengths of creating their own fashion brands, complete with registered trademarks, and even having photo shoots on yachts in Italy.
Anyone who is a sucker for 1920s jazz, 1920s dress, the Charleston, and ultra-swanky yachts (e.g.
He had created an empire from building boats, yachts, and ships.
So far this year they have raided more than 50 vessels, stealing cargos and hijacking ships, from private yachts to oil tankers, and extorting some $100 million a year in ransom.
Tsang, who enjoyed spending time with the wealthy on their yachts and in their private suites, pursued a restrictive land policy that boosted real-estate values – and thus the wealth of the land-owning tycoons.
Even Russia’s oligarchs are pawning their yachts and selling their private jets.
But, instead of buying villas, yachts, or soccer clubs abroad, he invested his fortune in Russia.
Even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that the unrestrained tide of globalization might not raise all boats, but only the yachts – while overturning a lot of canoes.
After bank bailouts, Bernard Madoff-type financial scandals, and a housing bubble that left Americans high and dry, it is as if the collective unconscious is recasting life on yachts and perfectly manicured golf courses as distasteful, and thrifty, often rural simplicity as a virtuously cleansing relief.
One simply does not see the profusion of mansions, yachts, and private jets typical of, say, Beverly Hills and Palm Beach.
Such recovery as there has been in the luxury market has been largely limited to so-called affordable luxuries – shoes, handbags, or ties, rather than yachts or fast cars.
If the main advantages of affluence were the ability to afford yachts and fancy vacations, inequality would matter less than it does today.
How much time do we spend actually using the things – whether cars, bicycles, apartments, vacation homes, tools, or yachts – that we own?
Aerial surveys now detect garden swimming pools; tax assessors investigate yachts moored in harbors; and no transactions above €1,000 ($1,268) may be made in cash.
Until they get it, the best investment advice may be to assess your adviser carefully, bearing in mind a well-tested performance metric: “Where are the customers' yachts?"
When he left the Kremlin in 2000, his secret fortune, from real estate, yachts, horses, and other properties, was estimated to be worth at least $15 million.
His personal wealth – including palaces, yachts, watches, and cars – has been estimated at $40-70 billion.
Sir Donald enjoys riding on their private jets and luxury yachts while on personal holidays abroad.
No matter how many palaces or yachts new money can acquire, old money will continue to despise the acquirer.
Fearing that the masses, condemned to the savage arena of unfettered markets amid a public-health disaster, would no longer be able to afford to buy their products, they reallocated their spending to shares, yachts, and mansions.
He often did them at picnics and when out on yachts.
There are plenty of little yachts and yawls at Calcutta or Madras which would serve our turn well.
To do this he had employed every means of conveyance--steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants.