Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.
-Paul Kriwaczek
-Paul Kriwaczek
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A Rentier is someone who lives off income from investments, particularly from renting land or property. This term was historically used to describe members of the landed gentry who derived a significant portion of their income from rents collected on their estates.
– Mike Tyson
– Charles Colson, Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon
-Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge
-Aaron Levenstein
-Joseph Stalin
-Joseph Stalin
-Eric Weinstein