The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth.
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They want greater autonomy and a bigger share of national wealth (especially from oil).
GDP and the city's big black economy means its share of national wealth is probably higher still.
The government concentrated on dividing the public pie among its supporters, rather than increasing the national wealth.
Human capital is an economic force that drives the accumulation of national wealth.
Instead of using national wealth, investing in roads and infrastructure, or competitive education, the government has favored increased domestic consumption.
Conventional wisdom holds that provincial Russians hate Moscow because they think it sucks up the national wealth and leaves them poor.
In the Republic, 1.5bn euro in annual national wealth and 37, 000 jobs so we can realise far more from our unique assets.
To hesitate over a decision to increase our national security, our employment, our national wealth, and relations with our closest ally, is totally inexplicable.
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In fact, the United States is so far beyond that point that way too much of our national wealth is tied up in housing.
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"It's like a law-school exam in what not to do, " says Jonathan Forster, national wealth-management chairman at law firm Greenberg Traurig in McLean, Va.
Some of the extra saving will also flow abroad, which will eventually boost national income through the investment returns on national wealth held overseas.
Remember that Baby Boomers still hold most of the national wealth.
The state is also in charge of national planning, eradication of poverty, and making sure that national wealth is distributed in an even manner among its citizens.
But Thatcher freed up markets to vastly increase national wealth.
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Such sniping is mild compared with the attacks on wealth in the America of the 1890s, when 1% of American households probably owned 45% of the national wealth.
What we do know is that the wealthiest Americans have actually seen their incomes and their share of the national wealth increase a lot over the same period.
Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world.
In addition, substantial amounts of national wealth remain concentrated in conglomerates controlled by a small number of powerful families, something that concerns policy makers as senior as the governor of the Bank of Israel.
The loans-for-shares deals were not beyond reversion, should a different president have wanted to carve up the national wealth in a different way, and the Communists were making threatening noises about private property in general.
But slowing the rise of health-care costs can't address the challenge of adding 50 million uninsured to the system while keeping expenditures the same or even somewhat lower than the unsustainable percentage of national wealth that they already represent.
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We have to fear that even if the deficits come down as spending is cut, it will mean less profits for our large public companies, a reduction both in their employees and their stock price, which would reduce our national wealth.
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.
Let's give additional tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, who, as we saw in a CBO nonpartisan report this week, have seen their share of the national wealth explode, compared to middle Americans -- seen their wealth explode over the last 30 years.
Four cents on the national wealth "dollar" for safeguarding our freedoms at home and interests abroad hardly seems excessive -- especially since we have generally spent a far higher percentage of GDP for these purposes since the end of the Second World War.
As a result, our citizenry, economy and society today have no choice but to pay the tax and hope that the Saudis and their friends will recycle the national wealth thus expropriated by buying up our financial sector and other strategic assets for pennies on the dollar.
We must also stress the type of Scotland we seek - a modern country of enterprise and opportunity in which an imaginative, entrepreneurial Scotland contributes to the growth of national wealth and national self confidence, and in which we have the best public services freely available to all.
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Between 1975 and 1992, the wealth of the richest 1% rose from 22% of total national household wealth to 42%.
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