Money does buy happiness

A combination of individual wealth, access to material goods and optimism causes happiness.

Individual income is also more important to a person’s wellbeing than GDP per capita.

The study used data from a Gallup World Poll of 800,000 people in 135 countries.

Read more at University of Illinois, Purdue University, University of Virginia

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  2. Firozali A.Mulla

    PhD

    Whoever said money can buy nothing has to have hie/her head checked. With cash all are at you feet and that is it no buts no ifs I thank you Firozali A.Mulla A pauper will never become a president as he is poor.

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    1. Elias Froehlich

      web developer

      In reply to Firozali A.Mulla

      Personally I disagree, I think a pauper does in fact have a chance to become, perhaps not President; but at least someone in a situation of great power. It all depends on how one's cards are played. If you know how to use the stock market, for instance, one can turn a small sum of money into quite a grand fortune. Therefore if someone could accumulate a large enough amount of money; they could, for danger of contradicting myself, become President.

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  3. Firozali A.Mulla

    PhD

    And Germany wind again in the auto. New car registrations in Germany, a key measure of demand in one of the most crucial sectors of Europe's top economy, fell last month as the crisis weighs on sentiment, official data showed Tuesday. Some 260,000 new cars were registered in November, a decrease of 3.0 percent over the same month a year earlier, the VDA auto industry told a news conference here. That brought total sales in the 11 months to November to 2.88 million vehicles, a drop of two percent year-on-year. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

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  4. Firozali A.Mulla

    PhD

    To Elias, Tell me one thing you can do without cash. We are no comparing as pauper who has no cash we are talking of the need the want the desire the craving the have of the cash. CASH is the KING like this or not. The wheel of economy came from barter to the corporations we have now the taxation came from the cash we earn. I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA

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    1. Elias Froehlich

      web developer

      In reply to Firozali A.Mulla

      while I agree that one of man's primal instincts is the burning need for currency, not necessarily the kind used in modern society. I mean something that can be used to obtain things that we want for and need. As for the things you can do without cash, there is a multitude, they may not be enjoyable but it is possible. To be fair though if we follow such things that initially may seem to be "free" they may have hidden needs for money. For instance, taking a walk, it may not at first seem as…

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