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  • Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up

    01/26/2015 11:43:28 AM PST · by 9thLife · 112 replies
    Mirror ^ | Jan 26, 2015 12:14 | By Alex Wellman
    Super rich hedge fund managers are buying 'secret boltholes' where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed. Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should people rise up. With growing inequality and riots such as those in London in 2011 and in Ferguson and other parts of the USA last year, many financial leaders fear they could become targets for public fury. Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told people...
  • Wealthy Chinese Set Up Boltholes in Singapore, US

    08/22/2012 4:52:14 AM PDT · by rjbemsha · 2 replies
    BBC ^ | 21 Aug 2012 | John Sudworth
    Louie Huang, a Porsche-driving, millionaire Shanghainese, has stumped up the sizeable investment needed to buy himself residency rights in Singapore.... Meanwhile, Chinese entrepreneurs with at least half a million dollars to spare are being encouraged to invest in the US economy at a seminar in a plush office suite with a spectacular view of Shanghai. Their reward is a green card under the EB-5 visa scheme, as long as the investment can be shown to have created at least 10 jobs. In 2006 Chinese nationals were granted just 63 visas under the scheme. [T]his year it is already above the...