The foray by Big Money into the single-family landlord business is becoming more sophisticated.

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On a serious note, the event underlines the fact that big business in Latin America is still largely dominated by family groups.

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Both candidates have promised to boost social welfare spending, amid rising income inequality and concern over the dominance of big business in the form of South Korea's family-run giant conglomerates, known as chaebol.

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Kumar, then 28, had spent three years working in the family business but was nowhere near ready to fill his father's big shoes.

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Bonds do have one big advantage over equities which harkens back to the tradition in Asia of the family-owned business.

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And the family farm is largely a quaint historical artifact: today agriculture increasingly is big business pursued by shrewd corporate operators, who are even more adept at politics than economics.

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