Excuse me, my infatuation with impressive numbers caused me to write
billionaires, not millionaires, in the sentence below. Still, 114,000 of
them makes a good-sized oligarchy! And a helluva dinner party, I would
imagine...
On 10/05/2014 10:28 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:
Hong Kong is the city that Milton Friedman once proclaimed the most pure
experiment in liberal free-trade economics. It has 114,000 billionaires,
including the four richest men in Asia.
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