Tag: ultracapitalism

• 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 Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy.

  August 1, 2020

  The Covid-19 pandemic crushed vast swaths of the economy, slashing consumer demand, closing businesses, and vaporizing millions of jobs. But it’s been good to the nascent sliver of the digital… 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 the super-rich spent lockdown

  May 15, 2020

  As the UK headed for lockdown, reports flew in of wealthy homeowners rushing to the countryside, to their yachts or to private jets out of the country. But where were… 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 ›

• The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently

  March 5, 2020

  Concierge doctors, yachts, chartered planes and germ-free hideaways. The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/style/the-rich-are-preparing-for-coronavirus-differently.html more ›

• Asian billionaires embark on UK spending spree as pound nosedives

  August 23, 2019

  China’s president, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron famously sealed their countries’ “golden era” friendship in 2015 over a pint of Greene King IPA at The Plough at Cadsden, a five-minute… more ›

• On The Mueller Report, Vol. 1

  July 29, 2019

  For two years we knew of the possibility that the Donald Trump campaign cheated in the 2016 election. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-mueller-report-vol-1/ more ›