Any country whose currency is used as a reserve enjoys tremendous benefits because those currencies gain a significant discount to financing costs.
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.
I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.
If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.
In Iowa it's a low cost of living, a short commute. Your money goes twice as far. There are so many opportunities that exist in our state and we need to do a better job of touting that.
The top clubs in the Premier League benefit very much from the fact that there are six teams on a very high level. They have so many games against each other so that they practically play Champions League the whole year. That helps them very much to persist in the international games.
