Noun

wealth (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good; well-being; happiness; joy.
  2. Riches; valuable material possessions.
  3. A great amount; an abundance or plenty.
    She brings a wealth of knowledge to the project.
  4. Power, of the kind associated with a great deal of money.

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Fri Sep 3 12:18:18 2010

Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions or the control of such assets. The word wealth is derived from the old English wela, which is from an Indo-European word stem. An individual, community, region or country that possesses an abundance of such possessions or resources is known as wealthy.

The concept of wealth is of significance in all areas of economics, especially development economics, yet the meaning of wealth is context-dependent and there is no universally agreed upon definition. Various definitions and concepts of wealth have been asserted by various individuals and in different contexts. Defining wealth can be a normative process with various ethical implications, since often wealth maximization is seen as a goal or is thought to be a normative principle of its own.

Although precise data is not available, the total household wealth in the world has been estimated at $125 trillion in year 2000. 90% of this wealth is held by people in North America, Europe, and high-income Asian countries, and 1% of adults are estimated to hold 40% of world wealth, a number which falls to 32% when adjusted for purchasing power parity.

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Thu Sep 2 22:17:01 2010

How do you decide on what Wealth Management firm or bank to use?
Q. How do you even know if you need Wealth Management instead of just having an FA or whatever manage your money? Explain this as you would to a 10 year old.
Asked by Who is John Holmes? - Thu Apr 8 19:02:24 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It depends how much money you have...that is how much you have in net worth. If you have more than say $100,000 you may be allowed to see a wealth manager. If you have less you will be relegated to see an FA.
Answered by unknown - Thu Apr 8 19:08:11 2010

How has leveraging debt helped you create wealth?
Q. I saw a show on CNBC called something like the millionaire inside where they had a panel of 4-5 financial gurus (I recognized two as authors of various books and on Yahoo finance). Their last topic was about leveraging debt to build wealth.
Asked by Thundercat - Thu Sep 6 15:19:20 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Levering is where you borrow to invest. For an investment property you could borrow perhaps 70% of the value of the property. If the property goes up by 10% in value because you only put down 30% the real return to you is 33% 10,000 increase on an investment of 30,000. This is leveraging and does not mean leveraging your own debt. It is also often referred to as OPM 'Other People's money' or gearing.
Answered by micha19702007 - Fri Sep 7 12:16:09 2007

What is so immoral about spreading the wealth?
Q. The wealthy had an unfair advantage and an unearned privilege passed down to them from the backs of other people. They didn't work hard to gain any success, other than stealing and lying. U call that work? What is so unfair about spreading the wealth, when they stole everything from everyone to get wealthy in the 1st place?
Asked by Icelandic192 - Tue Sep 8 22:32:13 2009 - - 31 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Precisely. The redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top has gone on since Pharaoh first decided he needed a large pyramid in the desert. Actually, it probably started LONG before that. And it has often gone the other way, too. It is nothing new, nothing to do with socialism, nothing revolutionary or even radical. That's just STUPID. The crackpots who whine are the ones who see only a dollar to two coming out of their wallets. They never stop to realize their industry probably takes more in the front door from the same redistribution than goes out, but then, they don't even understand that medical insurance, even the private kind, involves "redistributing wealth" every single day, and "pooling risk" and "rationing", too.… [cont.]
Answered by Feldwebel Schultz - Tue Sep 8 22:50:11 2009

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Quotes about wealth.

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  • "It is more difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
  • "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
  • "Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream."
  • "Penny wise, pound foolish."
    • Robert Burton (1577–1640), Anatomy of Melancholy, ‘Democritus to the reader’
  • "Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress."
    • Francis Bacon, De dignitate et augmentis scientiarium, Part I. vi. 3. 6
  • "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
    • G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English author and mystery novelist, The Flying Inn (1914)
  • "There is no Wealth but Life."
Thesp shares wealth on Web - Variety
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on Web Variety But instead of launching a production company through a studio like most thesps, he started a website that acts as a talent incubator and ...
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Bradenton Herald Less than four percent of the wealth managers in the Austin, San Antonio and Central Texas region were selected for the award. Mr. Wanamaker has served as a ...
Silver Bridge picks up H&S wealth advisers - San Francisco Business Times
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