High living, low sales: Shard apartments still empty, five years on
Luxury flats with a price tag of up to £50m were touted as an easy sell – yet have failed to shift as the London market slows
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Trump’s paradise: how Mar-a-Lago became a presidential playground
Florida’s Palm Beach has long been an exclusive enclave of wealth and fame. But now the president’s palatial club is open to the world’s gaze as ‘the Weekend White House’. Not everyone is happy
The Chinese billionaire with six months to make the world’s tallest building
Zhang Yue was the first man in China to own a private jet, and his office is modelled on the Palace of Versailles. Now, he plans to save the planet by raising the world’s tallest building in just six months. A new documentary goes behind the scenes of the great Chinese eco gold rush
The global ultra wealthy population loses US$480 billion
World UHNW Population Loses US$480 Billion: Wealth-X Released World Ultra Wealth Report 2012-2013 The world’s ultra wealthy population grew by 0.6% to reach 187,380 and their combined wealth shrank by 1.8% to reach US$25.8 trillion, according to the latest edition of “World Ultra Wealth Report” released by Wealth-X, the ultra high net worth (UHNW) business … Read more
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior: study
Upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lowerclass individuals Are Rich People Unethical? Which social class is the more likely provenance of unethical behavior, the upper class or the lower class? Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley analyzed a person’s rank in society (measured by wealth, occupational prestige and education) and found that those … Read more