Notes
1“Luxury or Necessity,” Pew Research Center, December 14, 2006.
2Jules Henri Poincaré, Science et Methode, 1908.
3“Got $2,200? In This World, You're Rich,” MarketWatch, December 13, 2006, citing a UN study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research.
4Felix Dennis, “If You Want to Be Rich, First Stop Being So Frightened,” Sunday Times, July 30, 2006.
5Joanna Slater, “World's Assets Hit Record Value of $140 Trillion,” Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2007, C8.
6Laurence J. Kotlikoff, “Is the United States Bankrupt?” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 88, no. 4 (July/August 2006), 235–249.
7Michael Lewis, “Stocks: Coach Class of Capitalism,” Bloomberg, December 11, 2006.
8“Zurich, Geneva Have Highest Quality of Living,” Bloomberg, April 10, 2006. See also 2007 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey (WCOL) of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
9Jeremy Grantham, 1st Quarter letter to investors, GMO, April 2007.
10Leuthold Group, “The Market's Average Total Return over 10 Year Periods,” Money, November 1999, 108, www.secinfo.com/dstVy.54b.htm.
11Food Outlook—No. 2, December 2006, Economic and Social Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/j8126e/j8126e02.htm.
12Richard Teitelbaum, “Merrill Lynch Leads as Hedge Funds Drive a Resurgence in Wall Street Research,” Bloomberg Markets, November 2006.
13We are not providing the names for these companies, because circumstances are likely to change significantly between ...
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