Showing posts with label Current Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Current Issues. Show all posts
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Dollar millionaire club 'expands'
The number of people worth more than US$1m (£507,000) rose to 10.1 million in 2007, a wealth survey suggests.
Despite the growing credit crisis, there were 600,000 more members of the global millionaires' club than there were a year earlier.
Their combined wealth also rose, by 9.4% to $40.7 trillion, according to Merrill Lynch and Cap Gemini.
The fast-growing economies of India, China and Brazil saw the biggest rises in the number of wealthy individuals.
The number worth more than $30m increased by 8.8%, while their total wealth grew by 14.5%.
"It was a year of two halves," said Ileana Van Der Linde from Cap Gemini. "We saw divergent paths starting in July."
The financial turmoil which began in the summer of last year and saw the decline of the US housing market and a crisis in the world's credit markets hit developed economies hard in the second half of 2007.
But the report indicated that emerging economies continued to be relatively robust.
Despite concerns about slowing economic growth this year, the report also predicted that the wealth of the world's richest people would total $59.1 trillion by 2012, an average annual growth rate of 7.7%.
Article taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/
What Is The Best Solution To Rising Oil Prices?
Global warming and environmental destruction is one of the most talked about issues in our present day society. There are so many ways to protect our environment and save some money at the same time. Do you think increasing your vehicles MPG (Miles per Gallon) by fifty percent or more would have a positive impact in our environment? How about having a positive impact on your wallet?
With the price of oil skyrocketing, the issue on the top of everyone's mind is saving money at the pump. I was recently in Connecticut, driving home to Rhode Island. The price of one gallon of gas at one Mobil station was over four dollars. I remember reading on Yahoo! that Connecticut is the second highest state for gas prices. I was shocked when I saw that outrageous price, Three dollars is high enough, imagine paying four or five dollars per gallon! Soon, it may cost over one hundred dollars to fill up your gas tank.
If we do not end our dependence on fossil fuels soon, not only will our wallets shrink, our environment, along with its wild inhabitants will also suffer. Most of the narrow minded people in our society believe the answer to these rising prices is to drill for oil in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuges. It is obvious that these people only care about themselves, and not our miracle planet. Oil is obsolete. We should have ended our dependence on it many years ago, but the oil companies billions were at stake. Recently, I was searching for some alternatives to oil. Finding some these money saving secrets was very difficult.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Vincent_A._Derrico
With the price of oil skyrocketing, the issue on the top of everyone's mind is saving money at the pump. I was recently in Connecticut, driving home to Rhode Island. The price of one gallon of gas at one Mobil station was over four dollars. I remember reading on Yahoo! that Connecticut is the second highest state for gas prices. I was shocked when I saw that outrageous price, Three dollars is high enough, imagine paying four or five dollars per gallon! Soon, it may cost over one hundred dollars to fill up your gas tank.
If we do not end our dependence on fossil fuels soon, not only will our wallets shrink, our environment, along with its wild inhabitants will also suffer. Most of the narrow minded people in our society believe the answer to these rising prices is to drill for oil in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuges. It is obvious that these people only care about themselves, and not our miracle planet. Oil is obsolete. We should have ended our dependence on it many years ago, but the oil companies billions were at stake. Recently, I was searching for some alternatives to oil. Finding some these money saving secrets was very difficult.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Vincent_A._Derrico
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