Author: Sam Allcock
When Ro Khanna talks about wealth inequality, there is something quietly striking about it. This California congressman talks about the “new Gilded Age,” tech billionaires getting too much power, and kids not having enough food because the rich don’t pay their fair share. He does this with a sense of urgency. He sometimes sounds like someone who has grown tired of the game from the outside. But Ro Khanna is really on the inside. A new report from the Washington Free Beacon says Khanna’s net worth might be more than $340 million. Every word he says at a podium is…
One version of this story is easy to write: a woman marries a famous musician, gets rich because she lives close to him, and then becomes tabloid fodder when the marriage ends. But that style doesn’t quite work for Bunnie XO. It skips over too much. As of 2026, Alisa DeFord, who goes by the stage name Bunnie XO, is thought to be worth between $4 million and $7 million. Most news outlets agree on the $7 million number, but she has never confirmed it in public. In a way, that level of discretion tells you something. The lack of…
A certain kind of frustration builds up when you see a really good actress spend most of the season lying on patio furniture while the men around her do all the challenging acting. That’s how a lot of people felt when they watched Demi Moore in Landman’s first season. She was there, but no one could really hear her. Critics took note. Some people were mean about it. It turned out that they only watched the beginning of the story. Later this summer, filming for Landman’s third season will begin in Fort Worth. Moore has signed a new contract that…
Drake has always felt something special about space. Not outer space, though the name of a private jet worth $185 million, Air Drake, might be a bit of a stretch, but real space. Size in square feet. Land. The kind of property that makes you prove it, not just say you did it. When you look at Drake’s current real estate holdings, which are spread out between Toronto, Beverly Hills, and the country in Texas, it’s clear that buying homes for him is less about shelter and more about starting over in his personal life. Drake’s most valuable piece of…
The ground is moving so quickly in a town west of Abilene, Texas, that you don’t really believe it until you stand next to it. There are excavations, steel frames, and transmission lines that go off into the distance. A company called Crusoe is building what might be the densest collection of computing power ever put together in one place. The company started out by burning waste gas to mine bitcoin. There’s no real sense of what a data center is here. The people who are building it have started calling it a factory, which doesn’t seem like a joke.…
A commercial skyscraper usually costs tens of millions of dollars, takes a team of lawyers, and a lot of patience that lasts longer than most people’s investment timelines. There has always been an invisible wall around business property that most people never get close enough to touch. There is a change happening in the way ownership is set up, not because the buildings got cheaper, but because that gate is starting to open. Tokenization of real estate is what makes that change possible. At its core, it means using digital tokens recorded on a blockchain to show a portion of…
People around the world find it almost strange to see the United States, which pretty much set the rules for the global financial system after World War II, threaten not to pay its own bills. It’s not because it doesn’t have enough money. It’s not because the economy has crashed. But because Congress is stuck in its own political weather, it keeps turning a normal administrative process into a negotiation with a lot at stake. For foreign creditors who have thought of US Treasury bonds as the safest form of global money for decades, this pattern is beginning to look…
Like many modern crises, it began in silence. Some subreddits stopped working. Then a few hundred. Then over eight thousand. Within days, one of the most popular websites in the US was shut down. This wasn’t because of a cyberattack or government pressure, but because of people who were never working for the company. The volunteer moderators on Reddit had enough. You need to know what moderators do in order to understand what happened. They are not just watching. Every day, they block spam accounts, report patterns of harassment, keep conversations from turning into chaos, and basically run communities with…
There’s a certain kind of silence on The Bishops Avenue that doesn’t seem right. Not calm-wrong, but creepy-wrong. There are tens of millions of pounds worth of mansions on these streets, but no one lives in them. They are hidden behind high gates and well-kept hedges. The lights are off when you walk by in the winter. Some of them have been off for thirty years. There’s no doubt about this. According to an investigation by The Guardian, about a third of the mansions on the most prestigious part of this north London street were empty. This is equivalent to…
When you look at Misty Copeland’s financial story, it’s kind of amazing. Not because the numbers are crazy for a celebrity, but because of where they came from. Copeland slept on the floor of a two-room motel in Gardena, California, when she was a teenager while her mother worked two jobs and was married to two different people. At that point, it would have seemed almost impossible that she would now have six-figure brand deals with Under Armour and Estée Lauder, write several best-selling books, and become the face of American ballet. Misty Copeland’s net worth is thought to be…