The impunity of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates is the predictable upshot of unbridled wealth concentration, facilitated by the offshore financial system. In fact, that system represents the selective withdrawal by a privileged few from the rule of law, without the loss of any of its benefits.
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The past decade has offered Americans an unusually vivid glimpse of long-hidden networks of wealthy elites. Beloved by conspiracy theorists and supermarket tabloids, the hush-hush systems through which the rich and famous make powerful connections, exchange favors, and hoard wealth and influence were akin to a Sasquatch: rarely glimpsed, let alone subject to sustained scrutiny, and widely believed not to exist at all. Over the past decade, however, it is as if Sasquatch has periodically strolled out of the woods and posed for a centerfold.
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The past decade has offered Americans an unusually vivid glimpse of long-hidden networks of wealthy elites. Beloved by conspiracy theorists and supermarket tabloids, the hush-hush systems through which the rich and famous make powerful connections, exchange favors, and hoard wealth and influence were akin to a Sasquatch: rarely glimpsed, let alone subject to sustained scrutiny, and widely believed not to exist at all. Over the past decade, however, it is as if Sasquatch has periodically strolled out of the woods and posed for a centerfold.