If anything, the visible presence of such wealth points to a widening gap between those that have and the rest.
The bank reported that its gross margin on invested assets at its wealth management business fell 4 basis points in the fourth quarter to 85 basis points.
The gross margin at Credit Suisse's wealth management business meanwhile fell to 114 basis points last year from 122 basis points in 2011, according to a regulatory filing.
"This only points to one thing: The Marcos hidden wealth is not hidden anymore, " he said.
He and his wife Tashia have been giving away bits of their wealth for 25 years, as this Cap Times article points out.
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Many of them figure to take up that rallying cry again, though as sports business consultant Marc Ganis points out, there are other ways to share the wealth these days.
Leigh Caldwell points out that anyone in the bottom 20% has more wealth than the bottom 20% combined, since they all have negative wealth, and no individual negative number in a group can be less than the sum of a whole group of negative numbers.
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If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
More than that, he points out, anyone in the top 75% of households (who all have positive wealth) has more than the bottom 40% combined.
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There are points in an assets lifespan where the deception mechanism of that market will break, creating abundant wealth for those who ride the trend.
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