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The Michael Berry Show

Where Does Houston Rank Among Cities With the Most Millionaires?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Houston Chronicle repeats the headline

0:05.4

Houston They didn't put the age

0:08.7

Why would the hometown paper know you needed an age?

0:17.0

Houston ranks among top world cities for millionaires. Just ahead of Zurich, there are 90,900 millionaire residents in Houston, according to an annual report from a London consultancy.

0:28.0

That's good, don't get me wrong, I'm happy when people are making money. I don't mean to suggest that I'm not.

0:39.0

But when you talk about real wealth, it's not income.

0:45.0

The people who we think of as having real wealth,

0:49.0

Warren Buffett, for instance,

0:51.0

Toman Fratida, they don't get a W-2.

0:56.9

You know every two weeks you get a paycheck?

0:59.2

They don't get a paycheck.

1:02.2

The real money is made off of capital gains, off of investments, off of the sale of a

1:09.7

business, or the sale of a large number of stock in a business you own or take a position in.

1:20.0

So we're only talking income. The problem with that is when people think of these sorts of things,

1:27.4

they don't take into account the folks that have the real money because most people don't

1:32.0

understand how real money, how people with real money because most people don't understand how real money

1:33.5

how people with real money work. They're very different than the rest of us.

1:36.6

But the term millionaire as they use it here means people who make a W2 of a million dollars a year.

1:47.0

And again, I'm happy that people are making good money.

1:55.0

But the real story here is this is inflation.

2:02.0

This is people having to make more money because things cost so much more.

2:08.0

And some people are able to do that.

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