In Haiti, a lack of markets means little profit and virtually no wealth, no progress, no resilience against uncertainty, and thus no hope.
Willem Buiter of the London School of Economics has argued in the past that when house prices fluctuate, there are both winners and losers, but no net wealth effect.
The story said that the recent economic crisis left the average American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, reducing their net worth by almost 40%.
Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.
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While there is no dearth of wealth in those areas, ordinary folk may be squeezed.
No amount of wealth, status, or power can adequately compensate for a life devoid of genuine friends.
Half of this country no longer honors wealth creation, and that half of the country is in charge.
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Instead it is consumption and a transfer of wealth no different from buying a house or a movie ticket.
He concludes that happiness bears almost no relation to wealth, professional standing or marital status, and is 80% inherited.
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Australia, to my enchanted eye, was a country full of wisenheimers, smart-mouthed diggers with no respect for wealth or authority.
There is more academic research than you can shake a Havana cigar at saying there is no correlation between wealth and happiness.
The No. 1 wealth-producing industry: Investments, which made 148 billionaires including George Soros, Carl Icahn and newcomers Seth Klarman and Isabel dos Santos.
Analysis of the London pilot showed no correlation between wealth and the take-up of choice, which suggests that choice is not something that can be enjoyed by the middle classes alone.
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In fact, the No. 1 wealth-producing industry is Investments, where 148 billionaires including George Soros, Carl Icahn and newcomers Seth Klarman and Isabel dos Santos derive their wealth.
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In South Florida society, perhaps especially, there is no shame related to wealth accumulated through illegitimate means.
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He has made no secret of his wealth, and required campaign disclosures already hint at its magnitude.
With the growth of democracy and the spread of wealth, no-one need be shut out from the bourgeois life.
Now 73, he has often said that the pursuit of wealth is no longer the main driving force in his life.
"We have a golden opportunity to move wealth at no tax cost, " says Mark Nash, a partner in private-company services at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
And no amount of material wealth is worth such soullessness and malaise.
"His Majesty has no desire for material wealth, " says a cabinet minister.
As Springsteen sees it, the creative talent has always been nurtured by the darker currents of his psyche, and wealth is no guarantee of bliss.
There are innumerable challenges that come with entrepreneurship, no matter your intelligence, wealth or network pedigree.
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The states with low or no income tax gained working wealth and are growing and thriving.
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Justice should be the same for every person and every entity, no matter their level of wealth.
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It still has the power to provoke, the jockeying for wealth and privilege no less spirited than in Gatsby's day.
She details investment and aid in a large number of countries that have no obvious mineral or resource wealth that China would want to export.
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