Sentence examples for dollars of wealth from inspiring English sources

These land seizures amount to a redistribution of trillions of dollars of wealth from smallholders to the government.

From Doug Kass: Eighteen trillion dollars of wealth has been lost in global equities in only seven weeks.

He was not an intuitive genius and tough guy who created billions of dollars of wealth through fearlessness.

And with trillions of dollars of wealth governed by these rules of the game, we must do better.

"Barclays jeopardized billions of dollars of wealth through practices that were plainly irresponsible and dishonest," she said.

WHEN share and house prices collapsed in 2008, Buttonwood's father-in-law asked what happened to the trillions of dollars of wealth that had disappeared.

For every dollar of wealth owned by a white family, a black or Latino family owns just 16 cents, according to a recent Federal Reserve study.

Overall, the survey found, the typical African American family was left with about eight cents for every dollar of wealth held by whites.

Another report from the Census Bureau indicated that in 2013, "For every dollar of wealth that white households had, Hispanic households had seven cents, and black households had six pennies," Williams said.

Taken together, much of the best available evidence suggests that the median dollar of wealth in the United States has been inherited by someone in the richest 5percentt of families.

His most recent paper on the estate tax, written with one of his students, Donald J. Marples, shows that the tax costs society 2 cents more on a dollar of wealth, in terms of unrealized economic activity, than would a tax on investment income that raised the same amount of revenue.