Forbes magazine has published their list of the 400 richest people in America. Together, their net worth is up 10% from last year, to $995 billion. The accompanying article begins: “Up from the ashes. After two years of declining values, the rich finally got richer.”
Finally.
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Dave 09.20.03 at 9:16 am
“Declining values”? It’s too early for me to be properly pedantic, but isn’t that valuation?
And a whole two years. The poor dears, we should have started a collection or something.
Kieran Healy 09.20.03 at 9:47 am
“Declining values� It’s too early for me to be properly pedantic, but isn’t that valuation?
Nah. Fortune‘s constituency thinks valuation is the same as value, just as it thinks an inheritance is the same as heritability.
Ophelia Benson 09.20.03 at 5:47 pm
Finally. At last. Not before time. I thought they would never. I’ve been waiting and waiting. Etc. Why, there are rich people of my acquaintance who only have *four* houses and four Mercedes. It’s an outrage!
Martin Wisse 09.21.03 at 10:56 pm
Hey, ten percent of their net worth is about what Bush asked for in Iraq…. I see possibilities.
Michael R 09.23.03 at 12:51 am
Is there an actual visceral enjoyment of seeing how rich some people are? And entertainment in seeing them get richer? I guess there is if you’re reading Forbes.
Michael 10.01.03 at 11:42 pm
How many of the Richest 400 would be on the list of the Happiest 400?
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