But currencies tend to be zero-sum games over time, and gold, arguably, is a lousy store of wealth.
Chinese culture is filled with superstitions about numbers, with 888 considered to be a powerful number of wealth.
In the graphic below, a breakdown of wealth for some of the top earners in sports.
More telling is that their levels of wealth are magnifying at an even greater rate.
The display of wealth could be a sign of even greater things to come.
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And this can be, indeed should be, thought of as a stock of wealth.
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Unemployment is not caused by an absence of avenues for the creation of wealth.
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They reflect directly on the balance sheet and income statement and are an issue of wealth.
The health industry will be the largest creator of wealth in the 21st century .
Drexler is currently working on a book about the impact of wealth on childrearing.
Over the past couple decades, there has been an explosion of wealth across the emerging markets.
Only the creation of wealth can truly overcome poverty and this depends on individual effort.
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However, the amount of wealth and the rate of urbanization here is truly astounding.
Diwali is also a time to pray to the goddess of wealth, Laxmi, for good fortune.
It cannot be denied that the New Economy has contributed to staggering inequalities of wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt, son of wealth and privilege, became the trust-busting enemy of corporate monopolists.
Those with the conservative view fear coercion much more than the influence of wealth.
When Breaking Bad begins, Walt is bitter over his loss of wealth in Grey Matter.
But centers of wealth tend to place undue emphasis on wealth as a measure of status.
Oki's top seven shareholders are Japanese financial institutions -- hardly angels of wealth creation.
No other reform would do so much to promote equality of wealth among the American people.
Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives.
"Back in those days, extra weight was a sign of wealth and affluence, " Kliner said.
For them, taxation represents an unfair seizure of wealth from those who earned it.
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While there is no dearth of wealth in those areas, ordinary folk may be squeezed.
The key distinction has to do with an axiomatic assumption about the nature of wealth creation.
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Whilst, collectively, India has considerable amount of wealth, it is concentrated in a few hands.
Then again, almost every American religion sooner or later becomes a Gospel of Wealth.
Not a commodity, money is merely a measuring stick that facilitates the real exchange of wealth.
Here he uncovers one method of wealth redistribution that has not yet been discussed.
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