As Chrystia Freelands new book Plutocrats" shows the rich really are different... There has always been some gap between rich & poor but it has never been wider
- & now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While the wealthiest 10 per cent of Americans for example receive half the nations income the real money flows even higher up in the top 0.1 per cent. As a transglobal class of highly successful professionals these self-made oligarchs often have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen. But how is this happening & who are the people making it happen? Chrystia Freeland acclaimed business journalist & Global Editor-at-Large of Reuters has unprecedented access to the richest & most successful people on the planet from Davos to Dubai & dissects their lives with intelligence empathy & objectivity. Pacily written & powerfully researched " Plutocrats" could not provide a more timely insight into the current state of Capitalism & its most wealthy players. Chrystia Freeland is Global Editor-at-Large at Reuters news agency following years of service at the " Financial Times" both in New York & London. She was the deputy editor of Canadas " Globe & Mail" & has reported for the " Financial Times" " Economist" & " Washington Post". Freelands last book was " Sale of a Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution". She lives in New York City."