Last year the number of millionaires in the world grew by more than 500,000. I wasn't one of them. But, I think my neighbors were in the group.

Presently there are about 8.7 millionaires in the world and many of them live right down the street from me.

The results of a financial service research revealed that strong market performance as well as overall global economic growth deserved the credit. Uh...yeah. I am not very smart, but even I could have guessed that.

China has about 300,000 millionaires and Russia has about 80,000.

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