The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth.
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The government concentrated on dividing the public pie among its supporters, rather than increasing the national wealth.
Conventional wisdom holds that provincial Russians hate Moscow because they think it sucks up the national wealth and leaves them poor.
Remember that Baby Boomers still hold most of the national wealth.
Such sniping is mild compared with the attacks on wealth in the America of the 1890s, when 1% of American households probably owned 45% of the national wealth.
What we do know is that the wealthiest Americans have actually seen their incomes and their share of the national wealth increase a lot over the same period.
The loans-for-shares deals were not beyond reversion, should a different president have wanted to carve up the national wealth in a different way, and the Communists were making threatening noises about private property in general.
Let's give additional tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, who, as we saw in a CBO nonpartisan report this week, have seen their share of the national wealth explode, compared to middle Americans -- seen their wealth explode over the last 30 years.
Four cents on the national wealth "dollar" for safeguarding our freedoms at home and interests abroad hardly seems excessive -- especially since we have generally spent a far higher percentage of GDP for these purposes since the end of the Second World War.
As a result, our citizenry, economy and society today have no choice but to pay the tax and hope that the Saudis and their friends will recycle the national wealth thus expropriated by buying up our financial sector and other strategic assets for pennies on the dollar.
Some of the extra saving will also flow abroad, which will eventually boost national income through the investment returns on national wealth held overseas.
We must also stress the type of Scotland we seek - a modern country of enterprise and opportunity in which an imaginative, entrepreneurial Scotland contributes to the growth of national wealth and national self confidence, and in which we have the best public services freely available to all.
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Human capital is an economic force that drives the accumulation of national wealth.
But slowing the rise of health-care costs can't address the challenge of adding 50 million uninsured to the system while keeping expenditures the same or even somewhat lower than the unsustainable percentage of national wealth that they already represent.
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At the same time, it must promote the American model abroad as the centrepiece of its foreign policy the global spread of wealth being the best recipe for national security.
The Greek Government is introducing a wealth tax to try and pay down the national debt.
Between 1975 and 1992, the wealth of the richest 1% rose from 22% of total national household wealth to 42%.
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Wages and salaries for our workers are at all-time lows as a percentage of national wealth, even though the productivity of American workers is the highest in the world.
This requires, however, that official Washington ignore the real national security risks associated with allowing sovereign wealth funds, governments, princes and others bent on insinuating Shariah into America to exercise growing control over the capital and credit flows of our markets.
The telegraph and the telephone, followed by the airplane and radio, empowered corporations to vault national boundaries, conduct their business globally--and shift their wealth to the least onerous tax system.
The group suggested, for immediate action, the improvement of national accountability and more equitable distribution of wealth.
In the Republic, 1.5bn euro in annual national wealth and 37, 000 jobs so we can realise far more from our unique assets.
"With banks, funds, securities companies and third party managers successively entering the wealth management space, wealth management competition is becoming white hot, " said Beijing-based National Trust Ltd.
GDP and the city's big black economy means its share of national wealth is probably higher still.
The difficulties of creating environmental statistics that are comparable to national income and wealth statistics are serious.
Despite the State of the Union appeal, the national government's role in fostering what we might call knowledge wealth, as with other kinds of enterprise, is properly limited.
According to a recent Gallup survey only 47% of national adults believe that we should redistribute wealth by heavily taxing the rich even though only 35% of adults believe that the current distribution of wealth in America is fair.
The other largest national full-service firms, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and UBS Wealth Management Americas, "need to take this topic very seriously and have a strategy ready in how to connect with a younger generation, " Mr. Pirker says.
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First, perspective: the moral weight of a national crisis is in inverse proportion to a nation's wealth and power.
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