It is one of the earliest wrecks dating from the beginning of Spanish colonisation and disappeared with a huge cargo of gold and silver along with gems and cultural objects specially collected to show the king of Spain the extent of the wealth of the New World.
Imagine the kinds of meetings that have to go on in the sovereign wealth funds of the world to look to rebalance and hedge their vast portfolios.
Cities have always traditionally been the centers of the world's wealth, and the World Bank says that as much as 80 percent of the future economic growth of the developing world will come from its cities.
So what does this tell us about the nature of the accumulation of wealth in India, one of the world's most unequal nations?
This glacial rate of advance might give us time to settle some of the arguments that have begun to brew over the limits of driver-assist technologies -- the point at which the car, having sniffed out a veritable wealth of information about the world around it, switches (perhaps unbidden) to autopilot.
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Software--as silicon etchings, packaged disks or the Web itself--has created most of the new wealth in the world.
The Chelsea takeover by Roman Abramovich was a game-changer and for the first time English and European clubs faced the prospect of competing with a club owner whose wealth made the signing of multiple world-class players possible.
Lest such an inquiry be considered a digression from the celebration of wealth that is the World's Billionaires ranking, let me repeat our best reason for keeping such counts: There is a message in the midst of all that money.
We therefore benefit from the wealth of data which is the envy of the world.
Both of them say a lot about China, the United States and their positions of wealth and influence in the world.
The art market is a second derivative of wealth creation in the world.
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It entails, among other things, ensuring the just and equitable dispersal of the seabeds' wealth to the world's developing and land-locked nations.
Instead, you see him devoting the vast majority of his wealth to those around the world who are suffering, or sick, or in need of help.
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.
Some now argue that it's a cause of financial instability as the international super-rich shift their wealth around the world, increasing volatility in the price of gold, equities, government debt or basic commodities such as copper and grain.
It seems that Sorkin wants to convict Jobs of lacking the moral character for not using his wealth and prominent position in the world of commerce to set an example for others less wealthy and less powerful than him.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president Charles Plosser said in Italy Thursday that the central banks of the world cannot create wealth and said central banks do not have the tools to fix the present economic and financial problems in the major industrialized countries.
First of all, inequality between rich and poor countries has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with (as James Wolfensohn of the World Bank said) 20% of the world's population controlling 80% of the world's wealth.
We are in a golden age of philanthropy where people are giving away spectacular amounts of wealth to help the world and where even very young people are getting involved.
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Without the creation of wealth America affords, there would be little of the giving that the world depends on.
Luxury cars are reporting brisk sales in this part of the world where rising wealth is creating an expanding pool of buyers.
For the first time, the wealth and actions of the 400 richest folks in the world are being viewed through this new lens.
Without the creation of wealth our system affords, there would be little of the giving that the world depends on.
India's share of the world's wealth has taken a staggering jump, with a combination of the roaring stock market and the appreciating rupee the springboard.
Jewish groups and lawyers for Holocaust survivors had been clamouring for three years for the return of wealth that flowed through neutral Switzerland during the second world war.
The value of all gold in the world is only some 12% of US financial wealth: and of course a much smaller portion of global wealth (at a rough guess, 3%, maybe 4%).
During a time when most of the world lost a significant portion of their wealth, many did not.
The concentration of wealth in this country and this world is extremely dangerous to all, including the wealthy.
Mr. Sanders gained a reputation as a great creator of wealth in the real-estate world.
This makes it especially sweet to see the world appreciate at least the tip of a wealth of Asian talent.
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