Yet the personal dimension of the race has been a stubborn hurdle for Mr. Romney, aides said, a point of frustration accentuated by relentless questions raised by the Obama campaign about Mr. Romney's tax returns, wealth and overall character traits.
But, he cannot abide the world seeing the likely disclosures in his returns: wealth not close to what he claims, debt, absurd deductions (anything remotely connected to enhancing the Trump name, possibly Melania's wedding gown), his hairdos, offshore tax havens, amnesty, unsavory business partners.
The company's massive cash accumulation is implicit pressure to return wealth to investors.
This means that although gross returns from wealth may well be rising, they may not necessarily be growing in net terms, since a large share of the gains that flow to owners of capital must be reinvested.Second, Mr Rognlie's research suggests that Mr Piketty has overestimated how high the returns on wealth are likely to be in the future.
The long-run relationship between r and g has little to do with the fortunes accumulated by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.Mr Piketty acknowledges the point, but does not let it distract him from his broader emphasis on the long-run returns to wealth.
Roberts, who was one of the first and most effective practitioners of prosperity-gospel televangelism (which promises believers rich returns of wealth and happiness if they "plant a seed" by sending the televangelist money), built his evangelical empire largely on the strength of his own charisma, and he exercised an emperor's control over what he had built.
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Tyler Cowen of George Mason University reckons Mr Piketty sees capital as a "growing, homogeneous blob", and so fails to take account of the variation, across time and investments, in the returns to wealth.Happily, "Capital" is not written in economist-ese.
Most were inscribed in memory of members of the Varangian Guard who never returned home, but a few inscriptions mention men who returned with wealth, and a boulder in Ed was engraved on the orders of a former officer of the Guard.
He claimed that Abramovich then betrayed him in return for wealth and influence.
He has also suggested that the former president can strike a deal by returning his wealth to the nation.
Two world wars, the Depression and high taxes pushed down the return on wealth in the 20th century, while rapid productivity and population rises pushed up growth.
