The continent is rich in natural resources, which to some degree may have been its undoing, save for the bounties of a few settler families.

FORBES: Sidelines

Meanwhile, unless you are super rich, you may be in substantial debt for your law degree.

FORBES: The Case Against Law School

Sao Paulo's inhabitants suffer from a high degree of urban paranoia stemming from the knowledge of the huge gap between rich and poor in Brazil, and the underclass that this creates.

ECONOMIST: Bioethical issues

In rich countries enthusiasm for new forms of prescriptive supervision seems to be directly proportional to the degree of harm suffered during the banking crisis, or to the threat from failing banks to bring down their governments with them.

ECONOMIST: A bank regulator��s lot is not a happy one

If costs continue to fall and safety standards continue to rise, the true promise of air travel would arrive: ordinary people would enjoy a high degree of flexibility and convenience that, until now, has been available only to the rich.

ECONOMIST: Air travel

Almost uniquely among rich countries, American men now aged between 25 and 34 are less likely than their fathers to have a college degree.

ECONOMIST: The United States: The rich and the rest | The