Brian Holmes on Mon, 6 Oct 2014 04:11:08 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> ERRATA From Deng & Thatcher 1984 to the Hong Kong 2014

Excuse me, my infatuation with impressive numbers caused me to write billionaires, not millionaires, in the sentence below. Still, 114,000 of them makes a good-sized oligarchy! And a helluva dinner party, I would imagine... 

On 10/05/2014 10:28 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:


Hong Kong is the city that Milton Friedman once proclaimed the most pure
experiment in liberal free-trade economics. It has 114,000 billionaires,
including the four richest men in Asia.



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