A billionaire wealth tax was proposed in six places between 2024 and 2026 and lost in all of them. Norway ran the real experiment. Here’s what actually happened to the money — and why the arithmetic is harder than either side admits.
Giving Pledge signers promised half their fortunes to charity. Fifteen years on, the founding class has given $206 billion — and gotten 283% richer. Here’s the arithmetic.
Carried interest lets fund managers pay 23.8% instead of 40.8% on their pay. Every president since Obama has promised to end it. Here’s why it never dies — and what new IRS data says it actually costs.
Why billionaires like Ken Griffin and Jeff Bezos moved to Miami — and the much larger wealth migration underneath, from $20.6B in relocated income to a housing crisis for everyone else.
How the wealthy buy their way into the United States in 2026 — the $800K EB-5 investor visa, the EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition, and the new $1M Trump Gold Card. What’s real, what’s marketing, and who actually gets in.
Casino whales bet six figures a hand, fly in on comped jets, and gamble on credit. Inside the high-roller economy — baccarat, Macau, and the math that always wins.
Rare whisky and cognac are the only luxury assets that get more valuable the longer nobody drinks them — but the market just fell nearly 20%. What the wealthy actually collect, and where it goes wrong.
Succession, The White Lotus, Billions, Wall Street: how movies and TV portray the wealthy — what the screen gets right about money, and what it quietly fakes.
