In fact, 52 of the Fortune 500 are headquartered in New York, with NYC having more Fortune 500 companies than any other city in the country.
While New York has more Fortune 500 companies than any other state, to date it hasn't been a global leader in startups compared to hotspots like the Bay Area, particularly in the sorts of enterprise and data infrastructure startups that undergird the internet revolution.
While its critics have derided Europe as a land of "creeping socialism," in fact Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than the US, China or Japan.
The Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, alone have more wealth than 40percentt of all Americans combined -- yet the U.S. taxpayer bails out Walmart to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in subsidies each year to pay for the health are costs of their uncovered or under-covered employees.
American voters, too, have more complicated feelings about their fortunes, and those of their children, than they did when Mr. Reagan first posed the question.
But therein lies the rub: while the financial cost of multinational corporations' offshore tax avoidance has long been clear (US-based Fortune 500 firms have more than $2.4tn parked offshore and are avoiding up to $695bn in US taxes), American lawmakers have demonstrated little appetite for enacting reforms needed to collect tax on this runaway cash.
Even though Fortune 500 corporations have more resources in absolute magnitude, they have all the same problems you do, often with more complexities, given their scale.
Rosberg also had more good fortune when it came to reliability.
No team in recent memory has had more good fortune than Gang Green, otherwise known as the New York Jets.
No player has ever had more fame and fortune thrown at his feet.
