Special Reports

Twenty years of IMF data on GDP per capita show the top of the table moving away from hydrocarbon exporters and toward economies that build industries or book corporate profits. Guyana is the one new oil story strong enough to break in. Liechtenstein has headed the ranking of the world’s...

Grenada’s first-quarter data show U.S. demand holding up while overall applications fall, even as Europe and the island’s own reforms raise the cost of a Caribbean passport. Americans have become the third-largest group of applicants to Grenada’s citizenship by investment program. Figures published by the Investment Migration Agency of Grenada...

When Anthropic made its registration statement public on Monday, October 26, 2026, most readers went straight to the revenue line: $16.3 billion in the first half of the year, against $1.2 billion a year earlier. A less discussed set of disclosures may matter as much to the company’s future. The...

Two insurance brokers in their early thirties now own one of the most expensive houses in Sydney. Their purchase says as much about the economics of broking consolidation as it does about the harborfront. John Angelis and Yianni Gourlas are the co-chief executives and equal owners of Clearlake Insurance Brokers....

Intel’s chief executive is sitting on a $3 million paper loss after Friday’s collapse. Palo Alto Networks’ chief has made nearly $15 million. The difference says more about timing and markets than about conviction. Two of the technology industry’s best-known chief executives each put about $10 million of their own...

The Netherlands added 81,000 millionaire households in a single year. Most of the gain came from house prices, which says as much about the housing shortage as it does about prosperity. Preliminary figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) show that the Netherlands had more than 574,000 millionaire households on January 1,...

Four states hold nearly two-thirds of America’s 989 billionaires. With California voting on a one-time wealth tax on November 3, the question is how long that concentration lasts. America’s billionaire wealth sits in very few places. Of the record 989 U.S. billionaires counted in Forbes’s 2026 World’s Billionaires list, 255...

Can SpaceX Build a US Mobile Network in Three Years? The Math Says Not Alone Elon Musk has said that SpaceX can build a US mobile network in “2 or 3 years.” He made the claim in a reply on X to Dan Schulman, chief executive of Verizon. Days earlier,...

Zhang Yiming Becomes China’s Richest Person Again as AI Replaces Property Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, is once again China’s richest person. The 2026 Hurun China Rich List, published on October 27, estimates his fortune at 670 billion yuan, about $99.7 billion, up 43% from a year earlier. That...

Damang Gold Mine Doubles Staff Under Local Control as Ghana Weighs Tarkwa’s Future The Damang gold mine in western Ghana has more than doubled its full-time workforce in the six months since Engineers & Planners (E&P), a Ghanaian mining contractor founded and led by businessman Ibrahim Mahama, took control from...

Madagascar’s Boeing Trial Exposes How Sanctioned Iran Acquires Jets A trial resuming in Antananarivo on Tuesday, October 27, centers on five Boeing 777 aircraft that never touched Malagasy soil but carried Malagasy registrations on their way to Iran. Today the jets fly for Mahan Air, an Iranian carrier that the...

No sport concentrates money into a single night like boxing. A heavyweight title fight or a mega pay-per-view event can generate more revenue in one evening than many teams earn in a season, and the leading fighters keep a larger share than athletes in almost any other sport. That structure...

For most of football’s history, even the greatest players retired wealthy but not extraordinarily rich. That has changed. Three players are now estimated to have crossed the billion-dollar threshold, and their paths show how the economics of elite sport have shifted. Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, is estimated to be worth about...

San Francisco’s ultra-prime housing market is spreading beyond its historic boundaries. For decades, buyers seeking homes above $10 million searched almost exclusively in the north-side neighborhoods of Pacific Heights, Presidio Heights and Seacliff, where sales routinely exceed $20 million. In 2026, record prices are appearing in neighborhoods that rarely saw...

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) suffered its worst one-day selloff in more than a year on October 21. Its shares fell about 12% in Shenzhen and more than 10% in Hong Kong, where they touched HK$368, their lowest level since July 2025. The trigger was third-quarter results published the...