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…g vast amounts of other people’s money — in this case, money investors and banks had entrusted to him to build a casino empire in Atlantic City. Continue reading the main story OPEN Graphic

…0% − 40% in Sumer and Babylonia, 6% − 18% in ancient Greece, 5% − 24% in Egypt, and 4% − 12+% in Rome and the Byzantine Empire. 4 After higher rates in the dark ages, European mortgages and commercial loans found the range 7% − 25% in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 5 Th...

…ds as each of us sees them.” By the time Epstein met Wexner, the latter was a retail legend who had built a $3 billion empire—one that now includes Victoria’s Secret, Express, and Bath & Body Works—from $5,000 lent him by his aunt. “Wexner saw in Jeffrey the type of person who h...

…nean after World War II, as can be seen in the Greek and Turkish issues at that time. Neither wanted to see the British Empire survive, each wanted the Levant, and neither was prepared to make a decisive move to take it. Both the United States and the Soviet Union saw the re-cre...

… brutal reality. And that, too, was a part of my own family’s story. Most of the world’s Jews, who lived in the Russian empire and Poland, were trapped at the time in a vise of poverty, powerlessness and anti-Semitic violence. Even in the democracies of Western Europe, Jews were...

…at superstructure became too unwieldy, an emperor like the gruff soldier Diocletian could allow for the division of the empire itself into several administrative parts, thus furthering its life span. America, for its part, is unique in its division of federal, state and local pow...

…Embattled Virginia socialite and winemaker Patricia Kluge may have found a white knight to preserve her Charlottesville empire - real estate mogul Donald Trump. Trump's business adviser said Wednesday that Trump was negotiating to buy not only Kluge's grand estate, Aloemarle Hou...