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Mr. Chen's Mountain - The story of a Chinese billionaire who moved back home, setting his mansion down in the middle of his economically depressed ancestral village economics Article 6465 words, published Feb 4 2019 8 votes
How to spend it: The shopping list for the 1%. In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatiously luxury magazine. Article 3706 words 25 votes
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