But not in Colombia, where a kidnapping threat hangs over the rich or famous (he is both).
Several American local papers, one of the most fragile parts of the industry, have been taken over by rich businessmen.
State lawmakers in places like New Jersey have recently promoted regulated online poker play within their state borders, drooling over potentially rich tax revenues.
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"She would not have tolerated irresponsible, over-rich business men, " he says.
All over the rich world they are getting their licences later, and they use other forms of transport more than the young did a generation ago.
The CBOE, the last major U.S. exchange to go public, thumbed its nose at concerns over its rich price compared with the offering prices of its peers.
As charities hit the headlines over the rich donors' tax relief furore, how can the majority of people with more modest means effectively and efficiently give to charity?
This being our annual publication of the original Forbes rich list, the U.S. 400, it's apt for me to note a revived debate over the rich-poor divide.
And now, I'd like to turn it over to Rich to talk about what the CFPB is doing to help parents, students and consumers know before they owe.
All over the rich world, young people are getting their licences later than they used to in America (see chart) and also in Britain, Canada, France, Norway, South Korea and Sweden.
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All over the rich world, there are parents who leave the child-proof lids off medicines because they find them so fiddly, and office workers so irritated by self-closing fire doors that they prop them open.
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The second way in which East Asia's financial traumas will spill over into rich industrial economies is that manufacturers in the region have become super-competitive thanks to devaluations of up to 40% against the dollar (see article).
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By doing nothing at all, interest from investments return more to the rich over 10 years than most workers earn in their lifetimes.
Lagos, Nigeria - Extremely wealthy folks often have to deal with a major predicament: How to subtly demonstrate their pre-eminence and superiority over the merely rich.
Mike Jempson, the director of the PressWise Trust, an independent body which helps people who have had problems with the press, says the system still favours the rich over the poor.
China has gotten rich over the last thirty years, in part, from exporting the small mass-market consumer goods that fill the shelves of my local Target before they make their way into my apartment.
Bangladesh has taken India to court over an oil-rich area in the Bay of Bengal.
There has been relatively little movement from poor country to rich country over the last 40-plus years.
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There is even more disagreement among rich countries over how to discourage bankers from bolting in a crisis.
Even the stencil work, a staple of contemporary street art the world over, is remarkably rich and detailed.
Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.
These differences between rich countries over how best to bail in private creditors make it unlikely that any radical change will occur soon.
McKinsey estimates that over the next decade rich countries and China will need 40m more college-educated workers than they will be able to produce.
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The study found that such heart attacks occurred in 50% of cases when the stent was implanted directly over a cholesterol-rich plaque, compared with 4% involving stable plaque.
Finally, I am far from the first to notice HelloWallet most certainly has a stake in this argument (that honor goes, I believe, to my pal Rich Eisenberg over at Next Avenue).
The bright lights of New York and London will lure the world's wealthy until at least 2023, the report shows, but Asia and Latin America will spawn the highest number of ultra-rich individuals over the next decade.
Sometimes they carry this to ridiculous lengths: I remember being addressed on the subject of the rigidity of the British class system by very rich men over lunch in a grandiose club in one of America's greatest cities.
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Using Chavez as the mediator might come with further diplomatic costs for Colombia, however: Chavez announced that his involvement might also be an opportunity to settle the pending border dispute over the potentially energy rich Gulf of Guajira.
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