What does it matter if rich individuals want to spend their enormous wealth on a club?
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I'll be very surprised if Rich Gossage does not get in next year.
If rich countries do not lay out welcome mats soon, they may find the queues outside their doors have disappeared.
Cross-border co-operation is never easy, but if rich-world governments want to protect their citizens, the place to start is in a foreign field.
Though it might seem as if rich democracies are most susceptible to managerial charms, the suits are in fact more significant in emerging markets.
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If rich economies raise import barriers in the misguided belief that they will protect Western living standards, they could destroy the main source of wealth-creation in the 21st century.
And if rich governments made a commitment, however distant, to opening their borders, they would quickly become more focused on addressing the growing imbalances between rich and poor nations.
If you are rich or if you aspire to be, these may be disturbing sentiments.
Given an electorate which, opinion polls suggest, already sees all politicians as shysters in cahoots with the rich (if not inexplicably rich themselves), was this not political suicide?
If the rich get poorer thanks to high taxation, some people may feel pleased but few are better off.
But if enough rich tourists want to behold a whale shark, eating them may soon look like a foolish option.
Mr Jumeau said that there would be no need for talk about compensation if the rich had cut their emissions in previous meetings.
If the rich feel unduly pinched, they will take evasive action.
And if the rich cut tariffs, it would hurt some of the poor, because America and the EU already offer selected poor countries preferential access to their markets.
From the start developing countries should accept the idea that, if the rich countries can make the Kyoto agreement work, they will eventually have to do their bit.
Exactly the same logic tells us that if the rich are more likely to spend than the poor then we must tax the poor and give the money to the rich to spend.
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For example, if a rich widower remarries a wealthy woman, the first wife's unused exemption is available only as long as the second wife is still alive, although it can be used to make gifts until her death.
To them, it didn't matter who I was, whether I had a religion, if I was rich or poor, if my skin was dark or fair, indeed if I was male or female -- all that mattered was that I was a precious human life.
And you know, nobody expected to get fabulously rich, although it was great if people got rich.
Anyone who really believed that the rich should pay more would, if they were rich, be paying more already.
And if the morally rich get the fruits, the sporting industries are better for it.
If you are rich and impatient, buying through an auction room is the place for you.
And, if application-rich smart-phones become the standard, where does this leave RIMM other than in catch-up mode?
They were still rich then, and they will still be rich if those tax cuts went away.
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Colors are accurate, if not overly rich, though the display's glossy finish kicks back no shortage of glare.
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They are also trends Frishberg says will make investors rich if they are smart enough to exploit them.
Tax the super-rich if necessary, as long as it contributes to the overall solution he is aiming for.
If bashing the rich is ruled out, there are other approaches to improving the health of the poor.
Still, there is much to gain from this rich if overly detailed book.
Old gentry long disliked the idea of dispersed ownership of property--even if many got rich selling their own estates to developers.
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