"On top of this many older people are becoming increasingly asset-rich but cash-poor".
And it suggests why a corrupt American agent is an increasingly valuable asset.
As other lines of transport became congested, the river was recognized as an increasingly valuable asset.
The company said it had decided to restructure because of the "increasingly complex" asset portfolio.
Yet since the outrage over the expenses scandal, it is likely that normality will be an increasingly great asset.
The network, based in Rollinsville, Colo., also offers an increasingly important asset: an international network of agencies.
And, although owners of an increasingly valuable asset find it easy to borrow from banks, tenant farmers still find credit hard to come by.
In such an economy one in which ideas, and the ability to manipulate them, count for far more than the traditional factors of production the university has come to look like an increasingly useful asset.
The growth of the Internet has sharpened the contest: since more and more consumer spending is expected to shift to goods and services that are marketed on the Internet, ownership of the last mile seems an increasingly valuable asset.
Ordinarily, but not always, the government auctions off sections of the radio spectrum, a finite and increasingly valuable asset in the digital era because it is used to carry wireless Internet signals, cellphone calls, broadcast television and many other transmissions.
And the power of celebrity is now so great and the media universe so crowded that having a famous name or a famous family is an increasingly priceless asset -- and can outweigh any meritocratic criticism.
