Memo to Thomas: Nobody hates a plutocrat with greater intensity than a free market advocate.

FORBES: What The Left Fails To Grasp Is That Gold Equals Jobs

Most people accept that a dollar is worth more to a pauper than to a plutocrat.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

The title character, a middle-aged former nurse, met her husband, Vladimir, a retired plutocrat, a decade ago, and both have problems with their children from previous marriages.

NEWYORKER: Elena

And his new job is covered by Section 2634 of the Federal Ethics Laws, a blessing for every plutocrat fortunate enough to secure temporary employment with the executive branch.

ECONOMIST: Why it pays to become America's treasury secretary

This showed Gustavo Ponce, Mexico City's finance secretary, in the pose of a carefree plutocrat, chewing on a fat cigar whilst gambling thousands of dollars at the blackjack tables.

ECONOMIST: Televised misdeeds hurt a presidential front-runner

More potent may have been Mr Gingrich's depiction of Mr Romney as a plutocrat who made his riches by shredding humble livelihoods at the firms taken over by Bain Capital.

ECONOMIST: The Republican nomination

The first career diplomat ever to become American ambassador in London, a post usually occupied by a plutocrat, Mr Seitz takes a humorous and sympathetic look at British society from top to bottom.

ECONOMIST: Where the power lies in Britain