How the wealthy actually buy residency and citizenship in 2026 — Caribbean passports, golden visas, Italy’s flat tax, Swiss forfait, EB-5, and the new Trump Gold Card. Stacked, not single.
How wealthy households actually defend their digital lives in 2026 — deepfake CFO scams, SIM swaps, family-office breaches, and the band-by-band cost of doing it right.
How wealth actually moves between generations in 2026 — the $15M exemption, the step-up in basis, lifetime gifts, dynasty trusts, and the talk-to-the-heirs problem.
About 49% of billionaire marriages end in divorce. What that statistic hides — and why MacKenzie Scott took 25% of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon stake, not the 50% Washington law would have allowed.
About 80% of $1M+ households sign a prenup, vs. ~15–20% of the general public. What that contract actually does — and the two things doing more work behind it.
Operation Varsity Blues closed the criminal back door to top-tier college admissions. The legal version — bigger, quieter, and post-SFFA still intact — did not move.
Wealthy parents spend $70K a year on a Manhattan kindergarten and $500K on a college consultant. The genuine risks to their children are not what most of them are buying against.
About 2.2 million people work in private homes in the US. At the top, household help is a six-figure profession; at the bottom, a workforce the FLSA only partially covers.
