Source unknown – the real measure of your wealth
0.0 00 “The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.” – Source unknown
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Tom Sachs Quote – You Will Always Feel Poor
0.0 00 “If you worship money, you will always feel poor.” – Tom Sachs
Read moreHannah Arendt quote – Economic growth
0.0 00 “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.” – Hannah Arendt
Read moreThe costly epidemic of disability
5.0 02 For many Americans, collecting disability has become a career, said Michael Barone. Over the past 50 years, the number of people receiving benefits from the Social Security disability program created to help Americans who are too sick to work—has rocketed from 455,000 to 8.6 million. An incredible 5.6 percent of adults are now getting disability checks, with a […]
Read moreIncome inequality in china
5.0 01 China’s wealth gap has widened so much that the country now one of the most unequal outside of sub-Saharan Africa. A respected Chinese institute found this week that China’s Gini coefficient, a number that represents income inequality, has soared from 0.41 a decade ago to 0.61 today. Anything over 0.5 is considered to be destabilizing, and South Africa, […]
Read moreMoney Moved Into Offshore Bank Accounts
0.0 00 Minimum amount that Chinese citizens have moved into offshore bank accounts since 2002: $1,000,000,000,000
Read moreGroucho Marx Quote – Money
0.0 00 “Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.” – Groucho Marx
Read moreMan Wins $250,000 On A Scratch Ticket Live On TV… While Reenacting car win.
4.0 02 A year ago, 37-year-old Australian truck driver Bill Morgan was crushed in a car accident and came close to dying. When his luck finally changed after winning a car on a scratch-off lottery ticket, the local media wanted to air his story. Well, it was during that reenactment that he got another surprise. The ticket he was scratching […]
Read moreD.H. Lawrence quote – Money
0.0 00 “It cuts us off from life, from vitality, from the alive sun and the alive earth, as nothing can. Nothing, not even the most fanatical dogmas of an ironbound religion, can insulate us from the inrush of life and inspiration as money can.” – D.H. Lawrence
Read moreThe sad state of warehoused children
5.0 01 Russian orphanages are a scandal, said Jennifer Rankin. State institutions house nearly 400,000 children, a population larger than many cities. But less than one third of these children are actually orphans. Many “fall into the system when their parents, often fighting a losing battle with alcohol or drugs,” lose their parental rights. Even more of them—nearly half the […]
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