Half of the world’s millionaires live in America, Germany, UK, China or Canada.
United States … 3,000,000 millionaires (29.7% of worldwide millionaires) Germany … 826,000 millionaires (8.2%) United Kingdom … 495,000 millionaires (4.9%) China … 415,000 millionaires (4.1%) Canada … 274,000 (2.7%) Australia … 172,000 (1.7%) Brazil … 143,000 (1.4%) Russia … 136,000 (1.3%) India … 123,000 (1.2%). Countries with Fastest-Growing Number of Millionaires The number of millionaires in the following 10 countries increased by an average of 17.4% in 2007.
India … 123,000 millionaires – up 22.7% from 2006 (1.2% of worldwide millionaires) China … 415,000 millionaires – up 20.3% (4.1%) Brazil … 143,000 millionaires – up 19.1% (1.4%) South Korea … 118,000 millionaires – up 18.9% (1.2%) Indonesia … 23,000 millionaires – up 16.8% (0.2%) Slovakia … 4,000 millionaires – up 16% (0.04%) Singapore … 77,000 millionaires – up 15.3% (0.8%) United Arab Emirates … 78,000 millionaires – up 15.3% (0.8%) Czech Republic … 17,000 millionaires – up 15.1% (0.2%) Russia … 136,000 millionaires – up 14.4% (1.3%). About 11.2% of all millionaires reside in one of the above nations.
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You wouldn't rebut it anyway, Indy. Not your style. You would mock - to provide cover just in case anyone noticed that you had nothing positive to say.
I have read the Huffington Post occasionally but I have never come across the Daily Cos. Maybe YOU are its only reader!
Apologies for being a foreigner. I shall try to do better.
PS: On an international forum.....you are a foreigner too![/quote]
Now I do love it when there's an eloquent statement.
Now Fallingman...when's the last time you had anything positive to say about capitalism or Republicans?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano riled Canadian officials this week by suggesting that the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States through Canada, even though the 9/11 Commission determined they came to the United States from overseas.
The backlash prompted her to release a statement Tuesday night clarifying that she knows the terrorists did not come through Canada, according to the Canadian TV network CTV. In the statement, Napolitano stressed that Canada is a "close ally."
The kind words came after a confusing exchange on border security during a media interview.
Napolitano reportedly was asked to elaborate on comments about giving the Mexican and Canadian borders equal treatment, even though Canada is not experiencing a violent drug war.
"Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn't have a drug war going on, it didn't have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year," she said. "Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there."
CTV reported that Napolitano was asked if she was referring to the Sept. 11 hijackers. She said: "Not just those but others as well."
Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador in Washington said, "Unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9/11 terrorists came from."
Napolitano later clarified that there have been other instances in which suspected terrorists have tried to cross the Canadian border into the United States.
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Ralpho was bragging about how many millionaires were in the Netherlands, not me...and how everyone in the netherlands had everything. Pure utopia.