World's richest shake off crisis blues

[JCMach1]

Source: Gulf News

The world's rich and ultra rich individuals shook off the effects of the global economic crisis to increase their personal wealth by 19 per cent to $39 trillion, returning to 2007's pre-crisis levels.

According to the 14th annual World Wealth Report compiled by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch, the population of millionaires in the world returned to 10 million in 2009. Asia led the rebound, with total wealth in the Asia-Pacific region surpassing Europe for the first time...

Read more: http://gulfnews.com/business/general/world-s-richest-shake-off-crisis-blues-1.644727

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Score 1 for the global ruling class... the only winners in the 'Great Recession'.

[Oregone]

1. Through boom and bust, they smile and you bleed

Fuck capitalism

[Fearless]

2. So about that trickle down...

:eyes:

[Thor_MN]

6. Don't worry, they've been pissing on us all along...

[aquart]

3. Aww, glad they're feeling better.

Would Skinner be mad if I just imagine a guillotine-manufacturing plant revitalizing a small American town?

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Heh heh heh. Smirk." - Republicon FatCats

"More more more tax cuts for the wealthy."

- Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R - Overpaid Propagandist)

[JCMach1]

5. 19% in this economy means they are breaking the rules somewhere...!!!

OF course, I am preaching to the choir.

[anarch]

7. nah...there is a special set of rules for the elite

that's exactly the root of the word "privilege" after all...a separate set of laws, so to speak.

[girl gone mad]

8. In case anyone was wondering what we got for that $23 Trillion.

Not even a t-shirt. :(

[TheWatcher]

9. Keep Robbing, Ruling Class.

Keep Being Arrogant, Keep Being Complacent, Keep Thinking You Are Invincible, Keep Trying To Slaughter The Herd.

In fact, you're so fucking cool and untouchable, allow me, a simple serf, to serenade you with a song.

They say Music can give one insight, even into one's future.

Maybe you can gain insight from this:

There's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth

But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode by

And we're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise

Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast

For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys

-Rush

[mbperrin]

10. Thank goodness! I couldn't sleep last night, I was so worried about

the rich.












Eloi.