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Are you rich enough? Strong enough? Bad-assesd enough? It is time to stop mucking about and just get that damn doomsday bunker built? Photo: Image: Brian McGowan / Unsplash 03 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The 1951 Civil Defense Film, ‘seen by millions of schoolchildren in the 1950s,’ was the cornerstone…
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“I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe but in the whole world: I collect emotions…’ Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (Tass) 02 March 2022 | MAHNOOR KHAN | Fortune The Kremlin claims that Putin earns an annual salary of $140,000. His publicly disclosed assets include an 800-square foot apartment, a trailer, and three cars. But…
Jack Sweeney is the aviation enthusiast who turned down Elon Musk’s money to stop tracking his plane’s movements. Photos in the gallery are said to include rare photos from inside one of Putin’s private jets. 01 March 2022 | Elena Gorgan | AutoEvolution Jack Sweeney is an aviation enthusiast who found himself in the crossfire…
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Their wealth is almost beyond comprehension. Their protection, although not fool-proof, is in itself also beyond comprehension. Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin toasts with attendees after a state awards ceremony for military personnel who served in Syria, at the Kremlin in Moscow Thomson Reuters 27 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media | Various sources…
Will we end poverty by 2050? Or fix the climate? Or schools? Or housing? Or stop massive military spending? No. But the rich need a fast way to get to the next meeting. 16 February 2022 | Ian Taylor | Science Focus It’s hard to decide whether flying taxis are arriving very late or extremely…
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‘The energy in the room among specialists and onlookers was tense, as pressure mounted over the postwar trove that had been kept together for nearly five decades.’ Photo: Sotheby’s New York headquarters during the Macklowe Collection sale on November 15, 2021. Sotheby’s 15 November 2021 | Angelica Villa | ARTnews In one of the art market’s…
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“If this doesn’t come out the right way, we’re going to see these shitboxes all over the city.” Photo: The proposed Norman Foster penthouse. Art: Foster + Partners 11 November 2021 | Kim Velsey | Curbed For a little over a decade, the billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman lived in a duplex apartment at the Beresford…
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On average, they emit over 70 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person every year, 30 times more than we can each afford to release Photo: A superyacht, kept on permanent standby, as some billionaires’ boats are, generates around 7,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.’ Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images 10 November 2021 | George Monbiot | The…
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You have to love these tax-the-rich ‘investigations.’ The conclusions are always the same: Yes, tax the superrich, but it won’t be easy. Photos: Jeff Bezos’ net worth is close to $200 billion.Credit…Jeenah Moon for The New York Times 28 October 2021 | Nicholas Kulish, Ephrat Livni and Emma Goldberg | New York Times It’s the other inflation problem….
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Of the 18 legislatures across the globe that Westminster is ultimately responsible for, some are among the worst offenders in the world of money laundering, tax dodging, and financial secrecy. Photo: Tony Blair in 2003. The former U.K. prime minister and his wife are among those mentioned in the Pandora Papers. (Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)…
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No Photo Credit ‘It is of course essential that you take the time to cultivate an awareness that, well, most people don’t fly private. And never will.’ XO Private Jets | No date or author | Additional photos and links provided by CMO in case, you know, concerned parents want to teach their children about…
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28 June 2021 | Jeran Wittenstein and Sarah Frier | Bloomberg via The OCR Facebook shares posted their biggest intraday gain in two months after it won a dismissal of two antitrust cases, pushing its market value above $1 trillion for the first time. The social-media giant jumped as much as 4.4%, the most since…
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