Your Weekend Reading: Where The Wealthy Live

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Some places attract the rich; others make them that way. While the flood of tech-infused gold continues to inundate San Francisco, filling it with millionaires and high-priced real estate, European cities like Zurich still retain their luster. Come see how, and where, the other half lives.

What you’ll want to read this weekend

Gabriel Zucman discovered just how few, and how rich, America’s wealthiest are. Bloomberg Businessweek reports how his research is fueling anger over near-unprecedented inequality.

When Sony unveiled a pact with rival Microsoft, it shocked employees of Sony’s PlayStation division. That’s because they have spent almost two decades fighting the U.S. software giant in the $38 billion video game console market.

Just 1.7 miles of fencing has been built with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s border wall.

The outlook for the U.S. economy is dimming thanks to a drumbeat of weak data, including below-forecast business-equipment orders.

Millennials and members of Generation Z are increasingly pessimistic about their lives—and the future that awaits them.

What you’ll need to know next week

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