As I watched Non Stop, starring Liam Neeson, a funny thought crossed my mind. With QE1, 2 and 3, even ransoms are getting higher. In the film, the ransom demanded was US 150 mio, a leap and mile away from the usual 5 – 10 mio ransom the older movies commanded and upon googling the Mel Gibson movie, Ransom, the ransom was only US 2 mio back in 1996.

Times change and times are still changing for us.
The Singapore Straits Times ran an article on the increase in number of millionaires for 2013 which showed a healthy 5% increase, according to the World Wealth Report published by Capegemini and RBC (Royal Bank of Canada).

By millionaire, the definition is simply people with investible assets of US 1 million or more.

What was not mentioned is that the global growth rate for millionaires is 15%, mainly led by Japan ...