In the midst of the longest economic expansion in the history of the world--and the greatest episode of individual wealth creation--a record number of people are going bankrupt.
Compounding the problem is a misallocation of wealth: People have too many sailors on the fixed-income side of the boat.
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As the price of e-readers approaches zero, it opens up more opportunities for people who have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide to access the same wealth of information, entertainment and education as people with normal vision and average-or-better income.
While most people are hurting badly, the very rich -- whose wealth and income have grown disproportionately big in recent times -- have largely recovered from the downturn.
With great fortunes being created almost monthly in our dynamic economy, more and more newly wealthy people are beginning to ponder the problem of long-term dissipation of wealth.
This begs the question: Is this long-term wealth, or are these people spending money because they sense that their wealth has come, but will also, just as quickly, go away?
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Now the challenge stated over and over again is to make it possible for young people of more modest means to borrow against their imputed wealth - the wealth that presumably they would gain privately if they had an opportunity to fully develop their inherent talents and abilities.
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The industrial age spurred people to be passionate, creative, brilliant, and more productive and wealth-producing than ever before.
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Qatar's winning bid reflects the emirate's talent for using its vast gas-fuelled wealth to win friends and influence people.
Malaysian sovereign-wealth fund Khazanah Nasional made a bid for Bank of Ayudhya months ago, the people said.
For people who married and then divorced, there was a slow build-up of wealth during the early years of marriage and then a steady decline beginning about four years before divorce.
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One of Sarkozy's proposals would allow people who get snagged by France's wealth tax the option of investing their money in small and medium-size companies instead of forking it over to the taxman.
"She brings a wealth of experience - and a dedication to fight for what's best for the British people in Europe, " he said.
"People have to have relationships -- not just from doing well in the front office but to asset management and private wealth management in particular, " says Hollands.
Investments is a catch-all category we use here at Forbes to categorize the wealth created by hedge fund managers, people who play stockbroker with the family money, and the titans of investing who make moves like snapping up steel assets out of bankruptcy court.
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