Add off-shore banking, and many Montenegrins dream that their republic could be a mainland Cyprus, where the rich will come to bask in money and sun.

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But in her new book, The Courage to Be Rich, New Age money guru Suze Orman has cleaned up some inflated claims we spotted amid her rise to book and television talk-show prominence.

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In Asia, clients also tend to be first generation rich, who want to make more money, rather than preserve it.

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This can be done, as it is in the US, federal spending does exactly that, transfers money from rich areas to poor.

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Like most rich men, he does not keep his money in a piggy bank under the bed to be taken annually to the Inland Revenue for counting.

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