The whole wealth of the nation would be in the hands of the 'Tonnage Bank, ' and the Bank would be in the hands of the Sovereign.
They pay both income and Social Security taxes on their earnings, and they are helping to expand the general wealth of the nation.
The wealth of the nation would increase -- and, as a result, tax receipts would be higher.
This is a long history of net-positive impact of government investment and risk taking in advancing new American technologies, corporations, jobs, and the wealth of our nation.
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And for Wall Streeters: a letter by Adam Smith on the wealth of the nation or one by Karl Marx on capitalism are great reads.
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Once, the wealth of a nation was defined by the expanse of its land, the size of its population or the strength of its army, the abundance of its natural resources.
The American dream of home-ownership, with the hope it inspires, the families it nurtures, the pride it engenders, the community spirit it spawns and the wealth of a nation it manifests, is being murdered.
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But, now, we know -- and you know -- that the true wealth of a nation is found in its human capital, in the skill, ingenuity, and determination of its people.
The sovereign wealth fund of the rich Gulf nation headed by Ahmad Mohamed Al-Sayed has previously blocked the deal, asking for improved terms.
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Also, arms development tends to be a heavily subsidized business, so the net creation of wealth in the selling nation is less than it appears to be.
The FORBES 400 demonstrates that the the real wealth of our nation is not physical--jewelry, gold, large cash accounts, lots of land--but metaphysical, what stems from the human mind--creativity, imagination, innovation, inventiveness.
The United States government, through its public funding of DARPA, was responsible for the creation of the Internet and our nation reaped untold wealth as the progenitor of the information revolution.
K. Jr. cared too much about the state of the nation, especially about the increasing disparities of wealth and opportunity in American life, to live out his life as a spectator.
In theory, new social policies should be able to spread the wealth in this nation of 1.3 billion.
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We do this by offering role models who demonstrate that success begins with a bold idea, that it is often created where nothing formerly existed, and that the resulting wealth can spread to every part of the nation.
There, rival armed groups fighting for control of the nation's diamond wealth were notorious for hacking off the limbs of civilians.
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We are not looking for a president who wants to make us more like Europe, manage the slow decline of a great nation, and redistribute the wealth.
And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight, we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
Joseph Stiglitz, the holder of a Nobel prize in economics, claimed in Vanity Fair that the top 1% of Americans were taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income and controlled 40% of its wealth, though others dispute his numbers.
Thirty-five percent of the nation's wealth, according to Leinberger, has been invested in constructing this drivable suburban landscape.
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With just 16% of Spain's population, Catalonia produces 19% of the nation's wealth.
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Catalonia has its own flag and language, produces 19% of the nation's wealth and argues that it sends far more in taxes to Madrid than it gets back in central government spending.
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From a a palm oil plantation run by a Malaysian company, Sime Darby, the Today programme's Evan Davis looked into whether these lands deals are a route into better life, or a signing away of the nation's wealth.
At its peak in 15 years or so, payouts would be but a small fraction of 1% of the nation's net wealth.
That's an amount equal to investors' cash in money market funds, an amount equal to 35% of the nation's total debt, a large multiple of the capital in sovereign wealth funds.
Combined with an aggressive immigration strategy, this will allow America to be the nation of choice for entrepreneurs and wealth creators for decades to come.
While rival Christie's has set up shop in Dubai as an outpost for its auctions geared toward the Middle East market, Sotheby's is betting on Qatar, a tiny nation the size of Connecticut that sits on vast oil wealth.
But to many observers, he blatantly ignores the growing problems of poverty and HIV while lavishly spending his nation's wealth for personal gain.
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