The Chinese Antiques Market and Japan’s Cautionary Lesson
The Chinese economy has been booming for the better part of 20 years now. From ignominious beginnings in the 1980s,…
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Society’s Tangible Wealth Building Escalator Is Broken
Tangible assets have been a key component of wealth building for most of recorded human history. In fact, before the…
Today’s Growing Scarcity of Luxury Raw Materials
We are quickly hurtling towards a crisis in the global luxury goods market. The cause of this future crisis will…
The History and Future of the Artist-Patron Relationship
Most of us are familiar with the image of artist as avant-garde outsider, relentlessly dedicating himself to pursue the creation…