Tag: kleptocracy

• Kleptocracy

  August 25, 2020

  The difference between the extremely wealthy and the rest of humanity lies often in their power to remain invisible. Their political strategies are hidden from public scrutiny, their business practices disguised… more ›

• The Twin Insurgency

  August 24, 2020

  The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness. States within the global political economy today face a twin insurgency, one from below,… more ›

• The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich

  August 24, 2020

  Thirty-two-year-old French economist Gabriel Zucman scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts. At that moment, Zucman was also pondering whether to pursue a doctorate. He was already skeptical of mainstream… more ›

• Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to criminals and fugitives

  August 23, 2020

  Convicted fraudsters, money launderers and political figures accused of corruption are among dozens of people from more than 70 countries who have bought so-called “golden passports” from Cyprus, according to… more ›

• Who are the super rich who buy a new nationality?

  August 23, 2020

  Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has obtained a leak of documents revealing that more than 2,500 people paid to become Cypriot citizens between 2017 and 2019. With applicants from more than… more ›

• The Bling Dynasty

  July 15, 2020

  “Luxury in China is not frivolous. It is not superficial. Luxury is a tool of success on the battlefield of life.” – Tom Doctoroff, CEO J.W.T. Asia Pacific The Chinese… more ›

• Moscow High Society — the Story INSTITUTE

  July 15, 2020

  As Western capitalism entrenches and matures within a new generation of Moscow wealth, the economic divide grows, and the elite define themselves by gilding their modern miens with the traditions… more ›

• Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?

  May 24, 2020

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an… more ›

• How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?

  April 30, 2020

  For many Americans, the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic gets bleaker by the day. More than twice as many people are unemployed in the U.S. right now than there… more ›

• We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk

  April 10, 2020

  Where is the president in Blade Runner? Beneath the 1982 neo-noir’s trappings of genetically engineered human automatons is a story about corporate power over and indifference to life, alienation in… more ›