In a hypothetical Venn diagram, one circle representing extremist Christians and the other fundamentalist capitalists, the lens-shaped overlap contains Sam Brownback, the newly re-elected governor of Kansas.
Only a few months later, the Morningside Foundation, led by Hong Kong venture capitalists Ronnie and Gerald Chan, topped that with a $350m donation to the school of public health, where Gerald earned his master's and doctorate degrees.
"We might not actually be very good capitalists," she said.
"The heavyweight capitalists may be saving money on their employees but they're not economising on themselves," said Bozhena Rynska, who writes the Izvestiya newspaper's Dolce Vita column.
Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors.
Rob Boston, communications director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, first noticed the contemporary allegiance between extreme capitalists and religious zealots years ago while lurking at religious right conferences.
Monika Lambert, from the Bavarian city of Erlangen, said she had come "to exercise my democratic rights to say that everything the G7 decides is in the interest of the banks and capitalists".
There's a short scene in this book where a group of rebels rush into the town of Andamarca, whip the terrified townspeople into a revolutionary fervour, and get them to denounce and then attack the town's capitalists, sexual deviants and other undesirables.
There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.
This is just not so, says Piketty, and he makes his case in a clear and rigorous manner that debunks everything that capitalists believe about the ethical status of making money.
Many would argue that Silicon Valley's big law firms--such as Brobeck Phleger, Gunderson Dettmer, The Venture Law Group and especially Wilson Sansini Goodrich--are Goodrich--are Goodrich--are venture catitaleast.
