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Oligarchs

Banking & Finance

Citigroup oversaw US$1 billion in deals for trust while sanctioned oligarch held concealed interest

Tech moguls (from left) Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attending Donald Trump's inauguration. Trumpism may represent the peak of the political cult of entrepreneurs.
Opinion & Features
LIFE & CULTURE

The political cult of the entrepreneur

From left: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms; Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos' fiancee; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, at the presidential inauguration in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan 20.
Opinion & Features

Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy

Led by Elon Musk (left), US tech bosses have been filing into Mar-a-Lago to trade favours with Trump (right) and donate to his inauguration fund.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly

Rybolovlev, 57, is reportedly worth US$6.4 billion, having built his fortune in potash fertiliser.
Lifestyle

Sotheby’s defeats Russian oligarch in art fraud case

A volunteer cooks for people at a humanitarian centre in Bakhmut, Ukraine. While oligarchic capitalism persists in the country, its civil society is pushing back.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

When civilisational models collide

The sales and especially the market value of Elon Musk's companies depend at least in part on the strength of his personal brand.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why petulant oligarchs rule our world

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