To borrow from Joseph Schumpeter, the capitalist achievement does not consist of better baubles for plutocrats.
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With prices averaging around 10 to 15 euros for beautiful baubles, second-hand gems are the most popular items.
Today's shops heave with Jubilee cakes, disposable decorations and flag-emblazoned baubles, letting consumers buy patriotism out of a box.
Pakistani traders were selling cheap costume jewellery, and the fever of the local women for these baubles was a thing to behold.
Of this, investors own 1 billion and central banks another billion, with the remainder in jewelry and other baubles.
You might be able to guess what Kate Spade has coming for Spring 2012: bright colors, big baubles, loud prints.
If the Queen lives as long as her mother, and ministers remain highly sensitive to sharing out the baubles, we may end up with many more cities.
Jewelers have been loaning their best baubles to the stars--on Oscar night, in particular--since 1943, when Harry Winston outfitted Best Actress nominee Jennifer Jones with his treasures.
Tai-tais decked in baubles and taipans in Armani merrily sipped champagne and nibbled on cruditEs as they paraded around the city's newest temple to upwardly mobile fashion.
In emerging markets such as China Japanese products are considered either over-engineered for the budgets of ordinary people, or lacking the baubles that delight the new rich.
But offering baubles to pro-European Tories like Messrs Heseltine and Patten is also a way of embarrassing Mr Hague, and broadening the base of Mr Blair's government.
Most of these special interest baubles are hardly worth keeping.
Baubles traditionally and historically refer to trinkets or cheap objects.
Too often forgotten is that cars themselves were once obscure baubles of the rich until entrepreneurs like Henry Ford mass produced the automobile on the way to it becoming commonplace.
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Yet his achievement also exposes the opportunities squandered by other serious artists, who could potentially have gamed the system but never even tried, preferring instead to produce angst-ridden baubles to be risklessly ogled in museums.
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Although Bulgari has thoughtfully provided two in-house shops to browse for Indonesian antiques and fabrics or the latest baubles from Milan, Bali's culture outside the walls is, of course, unbelievably rich in arts and natural beauty.
The jewellers want the government to slap a 20% value-added tax on the ingots, lest Italians discover that they can hedge their fears of inflation more cheaply with plain gold bars than with baubles and bangles.
Tellingly, he points out that successful models in America, from the likes of Honda, Toyota and Audi, offer these baubles only as expensive (ie, profitable) extras, because the basic cars are attractive enough in their own right.
For a society that remains mostly poor or tenuously middle class it was not the possession of big assets that rankled so much as the flaunting of baubles, such as the flashy cars and villas in Tunisia's most exclusive districts.
It gives you the time you need to browse all kinds of seafood (naturally) and produce, noodle shops, tiny cafes and cooking-supply shops, in addition to boots, baubles, baskets, plates, picks (of the tooth variety) and pottery, all at reasonable prices.
The events were held at the Moulin de Mougins, a hillside restaurant north of town, and the presence of Ms. Taylor elevated the event, especially for wealthy older men of my generation, who bid absurd sums for baubles, perhaps to impress her.
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Where we once used the same baubles and tree lights year in and year out which inevitably stopped working as soon as they were taken out of storage we now theme trees to suit our moods or to follow fashions, taking a page from store window displays like Ms. McCartney's and decked-out hotel foyers.
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