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• a  based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth

• Years after Mao all but abolished wealth, China's monied elite is making an impressive - and garish - comback.
• In addition, the ring sold narcotics, provided monied prisoners with clothing filched from newcomers, even had a strong voice in the granting of paroles.
• Decades after Mao realized his vision of a classless, property-less society by destroying wealth and all of its manifestations, China's monied Elite is making a boisterous comeback.

• moneyed

• moneyless

News & Articles

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• Thomas D. Elias: Desert energy plan would boost utility profits
  What happens when a big government study undermines the assumptions made by the writers of another pricey official report? Obvious, isn't it? When studies or parts of studies contradict each other's basic conclusions and assumptions, the ones that monied interests dislike will usually be ignored.
  June 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Daily News
• Desert Energy Plan Would Boost Utility Profits
  What happens when a big government study undermines the assumptions made by the writers of another pricey official report? Obvious, isn’t it? When studies or parts of studies contradict each other’s basic conclusions and assumptions, the ones that monied interests dislike will usually be ignored. So it is today, with four big government agencies combining to present California officials and the ...
  June 10, 2013 - Santa Monica Mirror

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  I hope we shall ...... crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations,said Thomas Jefferson.
• David Paterson in WXXI
  Monied interests, many of them here today as guests, have got to understand that their days of influence in this Capitol are numbered,said Paterson, to tepid applause.
• John Edwards in NewsOK.com (registration)
  Oklahoma Democrats, who will go to the polls Feb. 5 in the state's presidential primary, want a candidate "who will fight for the middle class, somebody who's independent of the very monied interests in Washington," said Edwards, who finished a...