Over recent years, London has become an increasingly attractive place for very wealthy couples, many of whom lead international lives, to establish their homes here.
Month: June 2008
The Richest of the Rich: The Wealthiest 250 People in Britain since 1066
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Back in 1999, Forbes magazine, already famous for listing the richest living Americans, decided to produce an historical guide to the all-time richest Americans. In so doing, it compared the amount of individual fortunes to US gross domestic product at the time and expressed it in 1999 dollar terms. Updated in 2006, the richest American man of all time was John D. Rockefeller, with a fortune equivalent to $305.3 billion in 2006 terms.
The Rating Game
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In nature, ravaging fires or storms ultimately have a salutary effect on the whole eco-system. It enables the clear-out of overgrown flora and the destruction of unhealthy plants or animals and parasites. This in turn allows for new life to grow stronger, healthier, in a cleansed environment promoting evolution. In the financial world, it seems, things are quite different. Whilst a survival of the fittest is still the overriding trend, politics, connections and critical mass, even if parasitical and flawed, enable the less fit to live on.