A lot of people got rich buying, selling and renting property, or lending the money to invest in property, and thought they were being clever wealth creators in doing so.
Politicians across the region feel sure they have a formula that can combine economic dynamism with order, taking in the best of capitalism (those sleek modern corporations and clever wealth funds) without unleashing the havoc that devastated Russia in the 1990s and threatened to consume America in 2007-08.
He writes: "Without the clever and wealth-creating southerners, this country would be Greece without the sunshine.
Also known as "token sales," this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a synergistic convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas.
Call it self-interest, or conflict of interest with their shareholder-owners, they continue to get away with this massive heist, this clever transfer of wealth.
The hipsters reading Mr Piketty in a Brooklyn café may not have studied his historical data-sets, but they love seeing a clever man advocating a wealth tax.
Pickers are also racial profilers, who base their movements, like clever burglars, upon the wealth of certain ethnic neighborhoods, like upscale Jewish suburbs of big cities.
Vivid, gymnastic acting from the nine performers and a wealth of clever stage business -- candelabra become helmets, an actress's cleavage becomes an ink well -- give the production the pacing of a Three Stooges movie, though of course it's far brainier.
One of Goldman's clever ploys to protect its wealth was to take out billions of dollars of swap positions with insurer AIG, guarding itself against default on complex derivatives.
For the record, it was MacKenzie who wrote in the Daily Mail in 2011 in a column headlined, Why don't the Scots merge with Greece?: "The fact that anybody is in work in Scotland is due almost entirely to the wealth created by clever and resourceful people in England".
He explains this by stating that the rich acquire their wealth because they are clever and work hard, and not because the system is rigged.
