Hesiod said if you want to have more wealth the only way is to work more hours.
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And of course this means that you, dear reader, have more wealth than the bottom 20% of households.
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In the meantime, in order for blacks to have more wealth at home, we need to start investing outside of it.
This is obviously a near insane thing to believe, to think that people with lower incomes in poorer countries will actually have more wealth than people with higher incomes in richer ones.
Different people will take this different ways, but Jeffrey Goldberg tells us that six members of the Walton family (the original owners of WalMart) have more wealth than the bottom 30 % of Americans.
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It is logical that older people should have accumulated more wealth than younger ones.
If you pay a lot of attention to taxes and costs you will have 50% more wealth at retirement than if you are clueless about these things.
Although American households as a whole have more of their wealth in equities than in housing, a relatively few rich people hold the bulk of the shares.
While older business families such as the Tatas and Birlas have a long-established tradition of charity, the more recent wealth creators have yet to open their purses in a big way.
More than that, he points out, anyone in the top 75% of households (who all have positive wealth) has more than the bottom 40% combined.
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Although in the short term it appears that more money means more wealth, all we really have is more money.
Dr Sandberg agreed that it was "a great thing" more people have risen to wealth through emerging global economies.
The high-beta rich often have more than half of their wealth in one asset, whether it is a company or a single stock.
The more you have in a single stock or industry, the more your wealth is exposed to sector fluctuations, which increases the odds that your portfolio will decline in value.
The Indonesian government may also have more practical reservations about pursuing the Suharto wealth.
Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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China's major banks have already grown more conservative in how they issue wealth-management products.
To the extent that rich economies as a whole gain from the new wealth of emerging ones, governments have more scope to compensate losers.
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The older generation benefits from public funds, in the form of healthcare and pensions, but younger people have to rely more on "private transfers" of wealth, such as family money, to a far greater extent than in other European countries, he added.
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Not surprisingly, some charities fear it could cut donations, although it would obviously have no effect on the behavior of billionaires like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who have pledged to give away half or more of their wealth.
"We're getting much more focused on the wealth of data we have, " said Mark Carges, eBay's chief technology officer.
He might have bolstered this point even more by noting the greater the wealth earned, the greater the market need solved.
Nor does it change the fact that they might have been better off pouring their wealth into other, more liquid, less expensive investments.
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Even though house prices in France, Italy and Spain have risen by more than in the United States, the wealth effect on consumer spending has been smaller (see article).
The IPOs of Zynga, LinkedIn, Groupon and other social-media companies have converged to form a wealth wave that, while more concentrated, is drawing comparisons to the dot-com boom of the late-1990s.
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Much of the sovereign-wealth fund's holdings have been frozen for more than a year.
Yes, we devote more ink to wealth than poverty, but we have published many articles about ways to help destitute nations.
First, house prices have a bigger wealth effect on consumer spending, largely because more people own their homes than own shares.
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