Falling share prices undermine corporate and individual wealth and could in turn weaken economic activity.
After that, they dropped out not because their fortune fell below the cut but because Forbes shifted our focus to individual wealth only.
In the midst of the longest economic expansion in the history of the world--and the greatest episode of individual wealth creation--a record number of people are going bankrupt.
It's underpinned by strong economic growth potential relative to the developed markets, there's a great deal of individual wealth that is building up in the region in the retail and high-net-worth levels.
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However, Christopher Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration applied a little common sense to the data by factoring out inflation, the rise in individual wealth over the period and, crucially, the increasing tendency of people to live by the seaside.
Addressing his congregation on August 15th, Dionigi Tettamanzi, the highly respected archbishop of Milan, did not refer to any specific individuals but said he regretted the way that in Italy the pursuit of individual power and wealth is so often put ahead of the common good.
The media would surely demonize such an individual, but his wealth motive would be our gain.
Buckley was an extraordinarily gifted individual with a stupendous wealth of knowledge.
But individual investors of all wealth levels need to accept that there is a caste system in the world of investments that excludes them.
Cypriot ones are 35% or so larger than German ones: thus, even if individual or per capita wealth were exactly the same it would appear, counting by households, that they were richer in Cyprus.
Almost everyone today, glued to various market reports, believes their economic indicators are the driving cause of market highs and lows, when, in fact, both our individual fortunes and our national wealth are not generated from outside ourselves but from inside ourselves.
Another is the fact that almost all the wealth assigned to an individual is actually shared by families, sometimes large extended ones.
In a technical sense, any system of taxation involves a redistribution of wealth, from the individual to where the government chooses to spend it.
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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With greater wealth comes the ability to buy enough individual stocks, to achieve adequate diversification and avoid MERs.
Under both Conservative and Labour UK governments, wealth has polarised incredibly both at an individual level and a regional level.
John Havens, with Boston College's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, is predicting that individual charitable giving will increase for 2010.
As indicated, 60% of entries to the Billionaires home page clicked on one or more of the 1, 210 individual profile file pages or other content in this wealth list.
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Norman's case for market capitalism did not rest merely on its ability to create wealth, but on its capacity to advance individual freedom.
Only the creation of wealth can truly overcome poverty and this depends on individual effort.
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The picture is even more dramatic if you consider wealth - the total value of a household or individual's assets such as their home and investments.
Because of individual freedom, cherished by Einstein, we are able to build wealth for ourselves.
Wealth is created by, and morally belongs to the individual creator.
The Fed has restored family wealth to its pre-recession high-water mark and individual and institutional debt-equity ratios still rest too heavy in the fixed income sector.
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Yes, even if everyone else is better at everything, there is always something that an individual (or village, town, country, company, whatever) can do which will add to the aggregate wealth which can be traded and shared.
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