mega-rich Concepts

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev · 29 Jul 2019 · 240pp · 74,182 words

seen so many worlds flick through in such rapid progression – from Communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich – that its new heroes were left with the sense that life is just one glittering masquerade, where every role and any position or belief is

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

by Frederik Obermaier · 17 Jun 2016 · 372pp · 109,536 words

professional family office. But is it normal to set up one offshore company here, one there, and another over there? In the world of the mega-rich, the answer is evidently: yes. [ ] At some point towards the end of the last century, a parallel universe emerged in which the ‘uber-wealthy’, a

Mexico - Culture Smart!

by Maddicks, Russell;Culture Smart!; · 15 Nov 2023 · 133pp · 37,859 words

Mexican homes are as varied as the Mexicans who inhabit them. They range from the luxury penthouses with swimming pools and servants of the urban mega-rich, to the spacious, Spanish-style haciendas of rural landowners. For the middle class there are the gentrified colonias (neighborhoods) of two- or three-story houses

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friends in the US but insult a Mexican’s mother at your peril. HOME HELP From the uniformed maids, nannies, chauffeurs, and gardeners of the mega-rich, to the lady who comes in once a week to clean up and help a working mother with the ironing, many people in Mexico have

USA's Best Trips

by Sara Benson · 23 May 2010 · 941pp · 237,152 words

get to “drive” an industrial mining shovel with a dipper larger than most living rooms. * * * GEORGE WARREN He may be credited with discovering Bisbee’s mega-rich Queen Mine, but George Warren’s tale is a hard-luck one. He was sent to investigate a promising deposit spotted by two other prospectors

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words

made front-page news. That evening, Turner also vowed to raise more funds for the international agency. And he used the pulpit to bully other mega-rich individuals into giving more to charity. “Everyone who’s rich in the world can expect a call from me,” he told the black-tie crowd

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at the charitable foundation set up in her name, also finding herself in the process. Putting aside the shortcomings of the plot, Loot caricatures the mega-rich and has a topical, ripped-from-the-headlines feel, given the rise to philanthropic prominence of Scott and French Gates. But the breakup of Gates

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words

a considerable membership fee, to be a part of the libertarian dream.20 The concept shares elements with the Seasteading movement, a libertarian group of mega-rich preppers intent on building independent floating cities on the high seas. The Seasteading Institute was founded in San Francisco in 2008 by anarcho-capitalist (and

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words

and mid-2012 Chinese billionaires lost almost a third of their combined wealth.21 No one is shedding any tears for the plight of the mega-rich. But the turbulence in the world’s wealth rankings rounds out a picture of insecurity at the top of the business world—whether of bosses

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

by Peter Pomerantsev · 11 Nov 2014 · 251pp · 80,243 words

seen so many worlds flick through in such blistering progression—from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich—that its new heroes were left with the sense that life is just one glittering masquerade, where every role and any position or belief is

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the usually impossible barriers of money, private armies, security fences. For one evening a week the most divided city in the northern hemisphere, where the mega-rich live fenced off in a separate, silky civilization, opens a little, narrow sluice into paradise. And the girls pile and push and crawl into that

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, famous for his love of teenage girls (he was later jailed for statutory rape), flew her down to his private Caribbean island. The new Russian mega-rich were especially keen to be seen with the new Russian supermodel. She spent more and more time in Moscow, found herself in the VIP lounge

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

and its gaping inequality. It was only possible when big institutions could borrow practically endless amounts of cash and keep moving the bag around. The mega-rich kept getting richer, but most did it without doing much at all—through the miracle of passive income, capital gains, management fees, or inventing digital

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Ramaswamy posted wistful, supportive remarks about being drinking buddies with Vance at Yale Law School.19 Using the term of endearment favored by his fellow mega-rich All-In podcast hosts, Chamath Palihapitiya celebrated the news: “A Bestie adjacent as the VP?!?!?!”20 Overnight, Vance’s appointment as the VP candidate became

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan · 9 Aug 2010

; more corporate executives are embracing causes such as gay rights and environmentalism; prominent billionaires have publicly called for tax increases on high earners; and the mega-rich have begun to bankroll liberal organizations with unprecedented sums of money. Meanwhile, the traditional politics of class are turning upside down in many places as

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a whole—those in the top 1 percent of households—which is quite a large group, but also the political activism and philanthropy of the mega-rich, a much smaller group of people who have personal fortunes of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. The ranks of both the ultra-affluent

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major Hollywood studios. Soon the contributions were rolling in. Reiner also arranged for Adams to meet Laurie David, who was married to Larry David, the mega-rich producer of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. David became an ardent fan of NRDC and a prominent donor. She joined the board of directors and

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ever more alarming news about climate change is likely to draw more wealthy people to this problem. Except for Gordon Moore, none of the truly mega-rich has made the environment the overriding focus of his or her philanthropy, and Moore has generally steered clear of advocacy. But if it’s true

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Berbers have sunk nearly half of their wealth into the foundation, and most of the rest may eventually follow. Philip Berber is contemptuous of the mega-rich who sit on the sidelines, even as millions of people die needlessly every year. “There are many, many wealthy people, wealthier than us, that choose

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distribution,” Carnegie said about his decision to retire from business in 1901.) But the book also offers insights into the present moment. Many among the mega-rich have been rich for a very long time now. The financier George Soros, the largest liberal donor in recent times, has been on the Forbes

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, in both 2004 and 2008, showed that these groups received tens of millions of dollars from leading unions, as well as from a range of mega-rich backers beyond Soros and his fellow billionaires—people such as Alida Rockefeller Messinger, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller III, and John Hunting, the office

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, before his defeat in 2009, says much about the new ways in which money and politics now intersect. Corzine has an unusual background for a mega-rich liberal, which is to say that he wasn’t raised by professional parents in a progressive metro area and didn’t go to an elite

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gotten started with philanthropy that leans to the right. In all, don’t expect the fierce battles within the upper class to go away. The mega-rich will still fund competing politicians, think tanks, media outlets, and activist groups. Is the rise of the liberal rich a good thing? That depends on

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the Heritage Foundation and the Center for American Progress or large-scale experiments to revamp public education. It is disturbing how much influence a single mega-rich individual can have over public policy—all subsidized by the taxpayer. It’s especially scary when the wealthy don’t know what they are doing

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist

by Michael Shermer · 8 Apr 2020 · 677pp · 121,255 words

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides · 15 Jan 2022

Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax

by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks · 3 Mar 2026 · 291pp · 83,422 words

The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education

by Diane Ravitch · 2 Mar 2010 · 403pp · 105,431 words

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig · 1 May 2013 · 261pp · 81,802 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age

by Roger Bootle · 4 Sep 2019 · 374pp · 111,284 words

Fodor's Rome: With the Best City Walks and Scenic Day Trips

by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. · 24 Sep 2012 · 618pp · 159,672 words

Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

by Ben Stewart · 4 May 2015 · 347pp · 94,701 words

The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

by Robert Scheer · 14 Apr 2010 · 257pp · 64,763 words

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis

by David Boyle · 15 Jan 2014 · 367pp · 108,689 words

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story

by Greg Smith · 21 Oct 2012 · 304pp · 99,836 words

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

by David Boyle and Andrew Simms · 14 Jun 2009 · 207pp · 86,639 words

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words

Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough

by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss · 31 May 2005

Londongrad: From Russia With Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley · 22 Jul 2009 · 471pp · 127,852 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

by William D. Cohan · 11 Apr 2011 · 1,073pp · 302,361 words

The Rich and the Rest of Us

by Tavis Smiley · 15 Feb 2012 · 181pp · 50,196 words

Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism

by William Baker and Addison Wiggin · 2 Nov 2009 · 444pp · 151,136 words

Pandora's Brain

by Calum Chace · 4 Feb 2014 · 345pp · 104,404 words

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late

by Michael Ellsberg · 15 Jan 2011 · 362pp · 99,063 words

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words

Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

by Robert Verkaik · 14 Apr 2018 · 419pp · 119,476 words

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

by Satyajit Das · 15 Nov 2006 · 349pp · 134,041 words

Who Stole the American Dream?

by Hedrick Smith · 10 Sep 2012 · 598pp · 172,137 words

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens · 11 Mar 2013 · 349pp · 114,038 words

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down

by Tom Standage · 27 Nov 2018 · 215pp · 59,188 words

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words

The Laundromat : Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite

by Jake Bernstein · 14 Oct 2019 · 470pp · 125,992 words

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive With Enough

by Michael Easter · 25 Sep 2023 · 318pp · 95,383 words

Great Britain

by David Else and Fionn Davenport · 2 Jan 2007

Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds

by Dominique Mielle · 6 Sep 2021 · 195pp · 63,455 words

Planet Ponzi

by Mitch Feierstein · 2 Feb 2012 · 393pp · 115,263 words

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg · 1 Jun 2011 · 372pp · 107,587 words

January Fifteenth

by Rachel Swirsky · 13 Jun 2022 · 160pp · 39,966 words

Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency

by Vicky Spratt · 18 May 2022 · 371pp · 122,273 words

Capital Without Borders

by Brooke Harrington · 11 Sep 2016 · 358pp · 104,664 words

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek · 5 Mar 2019 · 232pp · 76,830 words

Does Capitalism Have a Future?

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words