Hammer the rich? If only Ming, or Gordon, meant it
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: Lib Dem tax proposals are a blow for sanity in an era of excess. Labour should do better than try to trash them pointlessly.
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The top ZIPs on our list home to highly affluent residents, but are they the richest? Not necessarily.
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A fistful of dollars today deserves the royal treatment more than a wad of cash down the road.
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So Iâve finally finished the tough slog through The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedmanâs much-cited opus on globalization. One could take issue with the 577-page bookâs uneconomical approach to language, but itâs hard to dismiss its basic economic premise: The playing field is leveling out, as India, China, and other emerging markets plug in to a global economy. Outsourcing is a fact of life.
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I've heard thousands of sermons over the years, and a ton of them were about sex and money (or substitute: lust and greed). It's as if the two issues are synonymous, and in a way, they are.
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If you can&#39;t beat &#39;em, join &#39;em. Billionaire Stanley Ho may have lost the right to be Macau&#39;s only casino operator, but he hasn&#39;t lost his taste for gaming.
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There is art, and there is money. The twain seldom meet. Or, to steal a line from David Thomson, author of the eminently useful reference work "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film" (Knopf, 1,008 pages, &#36;22.95), just out in paperback, there is "Chinatown," and then there are "umpteen possible future 'Mission: Impossibles."'
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People are sometimes more extravagant with currencies that have high face values.
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How far would you go to get rich quick or clear a mountain of debt?
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist said on Saturday that it is wrong to force China to appreciate theyuan, also known as the renminbi, and it is understandable that the renminbi remains unconvertible at the ...
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Having millions doesn't mean you don't lose sleep. A look at what weighs on the wealthy.
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They are not wealthy. Their home states are politically symbolic. Their occupations or their circumstances suggest salt of the earth.
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When the rich get richer, it isn't just the poor who get squeezed, according to a new book by income-inequality expert Robert H. Frank.
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The world&#39;s rich and powerful - already bowed under the weight of their great responsibilities - were advised yesterday that they must learn to cope with yet another obligation.
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Come clean: Ever splurge on luxury goods just to one-up envious friends and neighbors? There's no shame admitting it; we're all human, after all. And surely you must take some pleasure from what folks might be whispering behind your back. "Wow, that son-of-a-gun must be doing really well. Did you see the gorgeous wristwatch he was wearing? Or the snazzy new sports car he was driving?"
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This Fool classic exposes some secrets about millionaires.
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A new generation of affluent parents in China are trying to cement their childrenÂs place in a fast-emerging elite.