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- Super times for superyachts as billionaires buy into maritime bling
- "Once the sea would have been their swimming pool," said Dufour. "Now they want swimming pools built indoors - something technically difficult. They want at least one helicopter on the top deck, and a personal submarine.
- 2008-10-03 to bestof, business, money, society, superrich, wealth by bagoly
- Bankers Use Secret Clinics, Nurses to Beat Breakdowns
- It's the Causeway Retreat, a mental health and addiction center that charges as much as 10,000 pounds ($20,000) a week for treatment away from the prying eyes of colleagues and the media. There is a waiting list for the facility's 15 rooms.
- 2008-07-18 to banking, bestof, business, finance, health, money, society by bagoly
- Paul Harris: Fortune favours the braves
- Forty years ago the last members of the Pequot tribe were scraping a living selling pizzas. Today their casino brings in $1bn a year. Infighting breaking out on rival reservations, will they spirit survive the stampede of the 'new buffalo'?
- 2007-09-19 to culture, indian, indians, money, society, usa by soobrosa
- Divided by origins, united by wealth: the new super-rich
- Instead of a single class, then, we should actually divide the wealthy into tribes. In London today, there are five big ones: Old Money (or OMs), City Boys (and girls), Celebrities, Entrepreneurs, and the Foreign Invaders.
- 2007-02-14 to london, money, society by bagoly
- In lands of the euro, a growing number of local currencies
- Gelleri runs an organization that issues an alternative currency, known as the chiemgauer, that consumers in the region southeast of Munich use to buy everything from pizza to haircuts to rugs. Designed to foster the production and consumption of local pr
- 2007-02-09 to bestof, local business, money, society by bagoly
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