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Peter Thiel warns of ‘catastrophe’ in US real estate — but sees ‘windfall’ for 1 class of boomers.

The Free Press/YouTube Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. As a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel is widely recognized for his expertise in the tech world. But lately, the billionaire venture capitalist has been sounding the alarm on an entirely different sector: real estate. During an interview with The Free Press, Thiel drew upon the insights of 19th-century economist Henry George to underscore the gravity of America’s real estate crisis. “The basic Georgist...
Stock Market

The Top 200 Art Collectors Have Lost Billions Due to Stock Market Sell-offs

ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton lost billions on March 7 and March 10 after stock market sell-offs motivated by investor concerns about the new Trump tariffs and a potential global recession. By the end of the trading day Friday, the major U.S. indices had fallen by more than 2 percent for the week and the S&P 500 fell 3.1 percent, the largest drop since September, according to NPR. On March 10, The Wall Street Journal reported the Nasdaq Composite fell 4 percent. More from Robb Report As of end of day Monday, 24 of the...