Новости за 21.09.2016

In a “remarkable” new biography of Karl Marx, Gareth Steadman Jones “performs the delicate task of disassembling the doctrine without dismissing the thinker, cutting the wires that link the two with all the delicacy of a bomb disposal expert”. In his later years Marx warmed to the possibilities of democracy. But embracing these would mean “junking the fiery rhetoric of his twenties and thirties. And among all the gifts bestowed on this extraordinary man, climbing down was not one”

Anders Smedsvik set off to circumnavigate the globe in 1972 at the age of 86 in a ship he built himself. “He had been at sea since the late 1800s and was one of few Norwegians on the exclusive list of mariners to have rounded Cape Horn by sailboat. He had been a vagabond in Tasmania, a mutineer in the Atlantic, and a deserter on Mauritius. He had sailed through hurricanes in every ocean in the world, survived shipwrecks and so far avoided losing a vessel”. He was never seen again

“Wealth managers are estimated to direct the flows of up to $21 trillion in private wealth, resulting in about $200 billion in lost tax revenues globally each year. In effect, these professionals detach assets from the states that wish to tax and regulate them. The rise of the super-rich and the wealth management industry is creating an elite who are increasingly ungoverned and ungovernable”