Social Security, in my opinion is the scourge of the middle class — imagine how
much more wealth the middle class would have if all of those withholdings had gone into tax - free 401ks invested in mutual funds.
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Maybe some people who would accomplish wonders in the math world would fall apart in a more practical setting, but some might also create
much more wealth and happiness in a field funded by investors trying to maximize creating things consumers want.
I see the reliable long term performance and can imagine how
much more my wealth would have grown with you.
I often find that undefined «what ifs» cause
much more wealth to be lost than actual negative changes in the factors you mentioned.
Not exact matches
Truth be told,
wealth inequality has traditionally been even
more skewed than income inequality in the U.S., and hasn't quite widened quite as
much in the last four decades.
«The love of family and the admiration of friends is
much more important than
wealth and privilege.»
At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do
more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of
wealth and privilege, and yet has as
much at stake when it comes to immigration reform.
«As the
wealth is created and the systems are improved we will be able to do so
much more.»
«One of my favorite sayings to share is «Your choices are
much more powerful than your circumstances,» says Povlitz, «
Wealth outcomes are from a series of many decisions.»
«If you are not disciplined enough, you can be
much more inefficient than if you were at work,» says Howard Hook, a certified financial planner and certified public accountant with Access
Wealth Planning in Roseland, N.J.
Don't wait until «the future, when you are making
more money,» because if you start investing at 30 you will need to save at least two to five times as
much to build the same amount of
wealth you would have if you had started at 22.
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Wealth is
much more highly concentrated than income, and concentration at the top has risen since the 1980s.
More importantly, median net worth actually fell from $ 84,100 in 1989 to $ 81,400 in 2013, indicating that
much of the gains of
wealth accumulation went to those in the top quintiles.
On the way up, increasing asset prices created a «
wealth effect» — those lucky enough to see the value of their home go up so
much were
more inclined the spend money, thereby stimulating the real economy.
I'm of the school of thought that it's
much more basic; that there are certain timeless principles which, if honored, can help you build — and keep —
wealth.
Alternatively, working with a high - quality asset management company that charged no
more than 1.50 % in per annum in management fees but who provided the white - glove service that made comprehensive tax, estate, and portfolio planning easier, might have made it possible to achieve financial independence and multi-generational
wealth much more quickly.
I believe you think we are heading for a long period of low returns, but still, with such a long investment horizon ahead of you, don't you think it could make sense to be
more exposed to public equities, maybe in passive index funds, and trust the long term
wealth building power of that asset class without so
much attention to continuous portfolio rebalancing trying to anticipate short term returns?
Then just set it up, continue to put as
much money as you can into your account, check in once a year with your advisor, and you will likely get better investment returns and build
more wealth than 90 + % of other investors.
A quick glance at the graph suggests that the
wealth transfer from bond to stock investors has declined over the last 50 years and may now represent a
much more modest premium for long - term stock investors.
I think most of their customers are people who have been disenfranchised for a long time by traditional
wealth managers who charge
much more and do
much less, and from their perspective, I can see why going with PC would be a great decision.
If the global economy were to recover
much more quickly than most of us expect, and,
much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far
more aggressive program of privatization and
wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as
much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash
much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.
These concerns are further inter-related to the diminishing state of food stocks, farmlands, oceans, climate, bio-diversity and
more that are adding to an overall decline of the planet's
wealth thus making the probability associated with a massive die - off in some form
much more likely.
A CEO that is willing to push for share repurchases when a company's stock has fallen rather than acquire another business is
much more likely to create
wealth than one who is bent on expanding the empire.
I truly think if
more people spent time thinking about ways to better invest their money, they will generate
much greater
wealth over time.
No matter how I work the numbers it just seems to me very obvious that unless it sharply speeds up the process of transferring
wealth to the household sector so that consumption can grow
much more quickly, China simply does not have ten years in which to manage a non-disruptive adjustment unless we are willing to make assumptions so heroic that even El Cid would blanche.
After a massive U.S. corporate tax cut put
much more cash in corporate coffers, a few companies including Walmart, Bank of America BAC, -1.28 % and AT&T T, -0.37 % awarded small bonuses to employees as a way to share a bit of that
wealth.
So while she picks Net stocks for fun, the bulk of Streisand's
wealth — she won't reveal how
much that comes to — is in the
more risk - averse, professional hands of her friend and money manager, Todd Morgan, chairman of Bel Air Investment Advisors.
We've found that women are
much more critical of their financial advisors than men and as a women's
wealth grows her level of satisfaction with her advisor decreases.
The class - struggle argument, however, had
much more resonance in the days when stocks, bonds and other
wealth were held by a tiny minority while the masses struggled to buy food and pay rent.
However, if you are a single doctor making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a meaningful debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that made long - term investments) even if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper
wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so
much more with your hand in life.
One of the best ways to become a master
wealth builder is to drop your living expenses as
much as possible, while upping your ability to earn
more money.
In addition, Paul also discusses the power of mindset in building
wealth, the key to investing in emerging markets, and
much more.
Of course you are still at the mercy of the economic cycle, but overall you have
much more leeway in making
wealth optimizing decisions.
As she makes clear, a person's
wealth is defined by and derived from
much more than the money in his bank account.
The
wealth of the industrialized nations is based
much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.»
Those who are wealthy simply have that
much more temptation: privileges to protect, comfort to be seduced by, power to put faith in,
wealth to serve and worship.
I may be alone with my thoughts but I feel
much more comfortable than to be among high level primates singing together in a building that exists for no other reason than to take money from the weak and frightened so as to advance the
wealth of a few, or one.
In a
much broader and
more popular meaning, it refers to all forms of
wealth.
This will not happen until the people and leaders, after centuries of deprivation, finally reaching Deng Xiaoping's admonition in the end of the 1970s that «to get rich is glorious,» but also come to realize (if ever) that it takes
much more than
wealth and power to provide a good life for all its people.
From the vestments (which are really nothing
more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as
much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as
much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.
Against Pareto optimality, one may argue that the benefits of gains to those lacking basic necessities add
much more human well - being than the addition of numbers to
wealth used only to create
more wealth.
The end of the play would be
much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his
wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.
Another criticism of economic measures of which the ISEW takes no account is that personal satisfaction is
much more related to relative status in a community than to absolute income or
wealth.
Wall Street and other
more established centers of
wealth and power, not so
much.
Billy likes power, fame,
wealth, and his own personal agenda, and Romney is a place for him to step on,
much more so than Obama.
As for
wealth, consider Silent Cal's remarks at the end of the same speech: «We make no concealment of the fact that we want
wealth, but there are many other things that we want very
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