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Say No to Dubai on the Hudson

by John R. MacArthur,

“Pharaonic exclusion is their motto; contempt for human scale and ordinary people their raison d’être.”

It’s a Rich Man’s World

by Thomas Frank,

How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates

Untitled

by Michael Mitra,

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

A Fifth-Grader’s Stately Pleasuredome

Art by Laney Rupp,

It’s Net Worth It

by Brad Templeton,

The Consolations of Vanity

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Forbes’s $64 Billion Questions

From an internal memo sent in April to reporters at Forbes magazine who were working on the magazine’s annual list of the “world’s richest people.” The list was to appear…

Ted Turner’s Big Letdown

by Ted Turner,

From a February 5 speech given by Ted Turner in New York City at a lunch sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Once you make a billion dollars,…

Captain money