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How Elite Families Outsmart Inflation, War, and Collapse

Old money often lives behind thick walls in cities where stone grows out of the ground like a second geology. In certain districts of London, Paris, Montreal, or New York, the streets shrink to a hush at dusk. Townhouses sit in rows, their façades cleaned by time and money, their windows looking out onto a world that moves faster than the paintings inside. The rooms behind those windows are padded with objects that do not move much from year to year. Portraits hold their place on the walls; silver remains in the family vault; the view from the balcony changes less than the national currency. The families who live in such spaces know, in a way that sounds cold to outsiders, that the numbers in the newspapers are the fragile part of wealth. What matters is what survives the erosion.