Author: Sam Allcock
Every summer, there’s a time when football’s money machine starts up again: contracts are renewed, wages are leaked, and agents quietly celebrate. Harry Kane didn’t just move from Tottenham to Bayern Munich in 2023; it was more than that. It was a sentence. A 32-year-old Englishman walks into Germany’s most exclusive club and becomes its highest-paid worker right away. According to estimates, Kane makes about €480,769 a week, which is about €25 million a year in base pay. By a long shot, that amount alone makes him the highest-paid player in the Bundesliga. If you watch German football for a…
Something almost understated about Alan Greenspan’s life story with money. It is thought that this man, who used to run the biggest economy in the world, is worth about $20 million. He has sat in rooms with four different presidents and could move bond markets with a single carefully chosen word. Not a very rich person. Not flashy. Just quietly and steadily rich, like a lot of serious economists. It kind of fits him. The first time Greenspan became chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was in August 1987. He stepped down in January 2006 after 19 years…
The financial press often forgets about a certain type of business owner. Not the Silicon Valley founder who gave a TED talk and was worth a lot of money because of the hype. Not the businessman on Wall Street whose picture is on the cover of a magazine every three months. Bassim Haidar isn’t like other people, which is part of what makes his story interesting. Haidar was born in Nigeria on February 2, 1971, to parents who were from Lebanon. He started building businesses in West Africa at a time when most Western investors wouldn’t have known where Lagos…
There are people who build businesses and people who make it possible for businesses to exist. It was clear that Joshua Baer was the second type. When he died in June 2026, a NetJets business jet crashed near Laredo, Texas. It ended not only his life, but also a project that was still going on: it changed the way the whole state thought about being entrepreneurial. After Joshua Baer’s death, a lot of people asked a question that almost seemed too practical to say: how much was he really worth? It’s not a simple question. In the world Baer lived…
Something quietly amazing about Carl Cox’s money situation in 2024 stands out. There have been many DJs who have tried to get quick cash by going viral or headlining festivals, but Cox has spent almost 50 years building slowly, steadily, and almost stubbornly until the money came in on its own. Several sources in the industry and Techno Airlines’ list of the highest-paid DJs say that Carl Cox’s net worth is around $16 million. This makes him the richest techno DJ, ahead of Sven Väth, who is worth $14 million, and Amelie Lens, who is worth $10 million. For people…
When you find out that someone left money on the table, not because they were careless or didn’t plan ahead, but because life got too hard to deal with paperwork, it makes you sad. That story seems to be at the heart of Daveigh Chase’s money problems, and it’s hard to see how it fits with the cultural mark she left behind. Chase passed away in Los Angeles in June 2026. He was 35 years old and had been sick with meningitis, a blood infection, and sepsis. Most estimates put her net worth at between $3 million and $5 million…
Carl Cox has been DJing since he was 15 years old, which means by the time you read this, he has spent more than four decades playing music in rooms full of people. That longevity is unusual in almost any profession. In electronic music, where trends cycle through faster than most genres and yesterday’s headliner can quickly become tomorrow’s nostalgic booking, it is genuinely rare. His estimated net worth of $16 million is the financial record of that persistence. He was born in Oldham in July 1962 and grew up in a time when the infrastructure for the kind of…
Daveigh Chase died on June 16, 2026, at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 35. The cited causes were complications from AIDS, meningitis, and septic shock, coupled persistent polysubstance use. Reports in the days following her death depicted her later years as exceedingly tough – periods of homelessness, major health decline, and hospitalization for malnutrition just before she died. In light of this, one of the most devastating contrasts in recent Hollywood news was the financial picture that surfaced. Her publicly disclosed net worth at the time of death was estimated somewhere between $500,000 and $5 million, based on what…
Seeing something cherished and old gradually deteriorate can cause a certain type of grief. Not in a big way. Not all at once. Simply put, it was progressively diminishing. It’s difficult to disagree with the description of the past ten years given by those working for regional print magazines. The advertising dollars dried up. The newsstands thinned out. Additionally, the math had just stopped working for one publication that had been operating nonstop since the early 1920s. The magazine — a regional American title with a loyal but aging readership — entered 2022 carrying nearly two decades of accumulated digital…
Around 2020, cardboard rectangles printed with cartoon animals began to be treated similarly to derivatives on Wall Street. Safes were being used to lock up booster boxes. Behind display cases, graded slabs resembled artifacts from museums. In Japan, a single Lillie Full Art card, drawn by Naoki Saito and featuring a soft-voiced anime character, was trading for as much as $65,000. At the time, it appeared to be either totally insane or visionary. Most likely both. The current price of that same card is less than $15,000. which is still a substantial sum of money for a piece of cardboard,…