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March 14, 2013

London and the New Global Super-Rich

Nicholas Shaxson, Vanity Fair

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Who really lives at One Hyde Park, called the world’s most expensive residential building? Its mostly absentee owners, hiding behind offshore corporations based in tax havens, provide a portrait of the new global super-wealthy.

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TAGGED: global economy, UK, London

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