Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Rise of the New Global Elite

F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind.
-- Chrystia Freeland, Reuters Global Editor-at-Large in The Atlantic

Video: MSNBC - The widening gap between the rich and non-rich has been evident for years and is evolving into two distinctive interest blocs: the Plutonomy and the rest... Read the article in The Atlantic.

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