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Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy.
BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript
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Jorge Bergoglio is the first pontiff from Latin America and the first pontiff to adopt the name of Francis the name of the rich young man from Assisi who renounced wealth and founded the Franciscan order of friars in 1290.
NPR: POPE LIVE: Pope Francis, An Argentine, Meets World
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The America that the show idealized a society in which every man had a job, inequalities of wealth were muted, and people were bound together in a tight community no longer existed, either.
NEWYORKER: Coming Apart
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By celebrating the moral character and competitive accomplishments of entrepreneurs that earn their wealth by providing for the needs of their fellow man through free exchange, Rand lays out a dichotomy that shows why the "greater good" is better served by the selfishness of the latter than the altruism of the former.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Such lengthy trusts can keep large chunks of wealth out of the tax man's reach for decades, or maybe even forever, he adds.
WSJ: Family Value: New Hazards for Estate Plans
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But while it's exciting to contemplate the giving nature of Gates and Buffett, if their true desire is to help their fellow man, they should hoard every penny of their significant wealth.
FORBES: Political Economy
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An article published in the February edition of Atlantic Monthly came close to repudiating free markets an odd argument from a man who earned in such markets so much of the wealth he has spread.
ECONOMIST: Giving it away
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Mostly, though, the speech laid out the humdrum economies of a man whose ambitions ran to political advancement, not wealth.
NEWYORKER: Wag the Dog
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The abiding feature of the Armstrong case is that many of the Twitter comments were condemning one man who pursued previously unattainable wealth in an era where global sponsorship flooded sport with money.
FORBES: Lance Armstrong Negotiates Then Confesses. Remind You of Anything?
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If they are forbidden from referring judgment to man-made courts in these situations, they will be deprived of their wealth and rights, and subjected to whatever their enemies bring against them.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Amja_alsawy
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But it's male-ish to say that only the size of a man's pecs or the shape of woman's rear end can inspire a genuine attraction, whereas obscene wealth always and everywhere inspires only money-grubbing gold-digging.
FORBES: Does Money Make You More Attractive?