Stock trading is by no means risk-free — countless fortunes have been made and lost on Wall Street — but if you're smart, careful, and, most importantly, a little lucky, you can stand to make lots of money on the stock market.
And the fact that so many buyers find it possible up and down the financial ladder to succumb to the attraction without going bankrupt suggests that the recession, devastating though it is to some, leaves essentially intact countless private fortunes, from very large to relatively small.
The method became key to countless more energy fortunes.
Sure, you could point to countless other articles in Fortune, and other magazines and newspapers, that read like love sonnets to A.I.G. and other companies that would later be vilified.
The hale fellow who might have made his name, and a far larger fortune, in countless spheres of life, and who sometimes gives the impression that politics is a useful and diverting sport, versus the gentle ascetic who can conceive of no life other than the political brand.
A former farmer who like many Indonesians uses only one name, Mr. Jumaah, 45, was one of the countless men seeking their fortunes in the gold rush that has swept this part of eastern Indonesia.
Lost in the conservative reality is the role of the American middle class in creating the giant consumer economy on which the fortunes of countless American companies were built.
When watching and reading the news over the next weeks, months and perhaps years while custody battles, battles over his fortunes and countless rumors about drug use and so-called odd behavior will assault you through television, emails, tweets and texts, just remember, Jackson was a human first, no matter what any scriptwriter or talking head tries to convince you of otherwise.
This is most obvious in the way Robert Nesta Marley is remembered, and not as the pan-African, pro-poor man – Marley used his fortune to support countless families in Jamaica – who sang at Zimbabwe's independence celebrations.
Imagine the outcry, the countless replays, the shift in fortunes.
