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The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts - models of financial propriety - suddenly set off on a wild ride of economic binges. Not only do they control more than a third of the countrys wealth, their increasing vulnerability to the booms and busts of the stock market wreak havoc on our consumer economy, financial markets, communities, employment opportunities, and government finances. Robert Franks insightful analysis provides the disturbing big picture of high-beta wealth. His vivid storytelling brings you inside the mortgaged mansions, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed Bentleys and Gulfstreams, and wrecked lives and relationships: How one couple frittered away a fortune trying to build Americas biggest house 90,000 square feet with 23 full bathrooms, a 6,000 square foot master suite with a bed on a rotating platformonly to be forced to put it on the market because we really need the money. Repo men who are now the scavengers of the wealthy, picking up private jets, helicopters, yachts and racehorses the shiny remains of a decade of conspicuous consumption financed with debt, asset bubbles, liquidity events, and soaring stock prices. How big money ruins everything for communities such as Aspen, Colorado whose over-reliance on the rich created a stratified social scene of velvet ropes and A-lists and crises in employment opportunities, housing, and tax revenues. Why Californias worst budget crisis in history is due in large part to reliance on the volatile incomes of the states tech tycoons. The bitter divorce of a couple who just a few years ago made the Forbes 400 list of the richest people, the firing of their enormous household staff of 110, and how one former spouse learned the marvels of shopping at Marshalls, filling your own gas tank, and flying commercial. Robert Franks stories and analysis brilliantly show that the emergence of the high-beta rich is not just a high-class problem for the rich. High-beta wealth has national consequences: Americas dependence on the rich + great volatility among the rich = a more volatile America. Cycles of wealth are now much faster and more extreme. The rich are a new Potemkin Plutocracy and the important lessons and consequences are brought to light of day in this engrossing book. high-beta rich (hi beta rich) 1. a newly discovered personality type of the America upper class prone to wild swings in wealth. 2. the winners (and occasional losers) in an economy that creates wealth from financial markets, asset bubbles and deals. 3. derived from the Wall Street term high-beta, meaning highly volatile or prone to booms and busts. 4. an elite thats capable of wreaking havoc on communities, jobs, government finances, and the consumer economy. 5. a new Potemkin plutocracy that hides a mountain of debt behind the image of success, and is one crisis away from losing their mansions, private jets and yachts. From the Hardcover edition.

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Also by Robert Frank Richistan Copyright 2011 by Robert Frank All rights - photo 1

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Copyright 2011 by Robert Frank All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

Copyright 2011 by Robert Frank

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN BUSINESS is a trademark and CROWN and the Rising Sun colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dan Sheridan for permission to use an excerpt from Big Money Ruins Everything, words and music by Dan Sheridan, Aspen, CO. Reprinted by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Frank, Robert, 1968
The high-beta rich : how the manic wealthy will take us to the next boom, bubble, and bust / Robert Frank.1st ed.
p. cm.
1. WealthUnited States. 2. Rich peopleUnited States. 3. MillionairesUnited States. 4. Business cyclesUnited States. 5. RecessionsUnited States. 6. Financial crisesUnited States. I. Title.
HC110.W4F735 2011
330.9730931dc23 2011019319

eISBN: 978-0-307-58991-0

Jacket design by Daniel Rembert
Jacket photography Evox Images

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Giving Up the Gulfstream

PART I
The Rise of High-Beta Wealth
1
WHO REPOD MY YACHT?
2
1982: THE MAGIC YEAR FOR WEALTH
PART II
The Suddenly Non-Rich
3
HOMES LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS
4
LUCKYS LANDING
5
THE MAKE-BELIEVE BILLIONAIRE
PART III
Trickle-Down Risks
6
BIG MONEY RUINS EVERYTHING
7
GIVING JEEVES THE PINK SLIP
8
WHATS WRONG WITH CALIFORNIA?
PART IV
Solving for Beta
9
THE LOW-BETA RICH

EPILOGUE
The Future of High-Beta Wealth

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INTRODUCTION
Giving Up the Gulfstream

In the spring of 2006, at the glittering peak of Americas Second Gilded Age, I flew to Palm Springs, California, to meet one of the nations newest billionaires.

His name was Tim Blixseth. And, like many new billionaires at the time, he had more household staff than he could count. Somewhere around a hundred was his best guess at the time (it was actually 110). When I landed, I was greeted by one of his minions, a chipper Filipino chauffeur named Jesse, wearing khakis and a crisp white polo shirt, the universal uniform for helpers of the rich.

Welcome, Mr. Frank! Jesse said. Ill be taking you to the residence.

Jesse and I climbed into his shiny black Land Rover, and he handed me a cold Fiji water and a lemon-scented towel from a cooler in the armrest. We pulled out of the airport and drove on Route 111, past the strip malls, car dealerships, and fast-food restaurants, and out toward the open desert. The sun was setting behind the orange peaks of the Santa Rosa Mountains, and a cool night breeze drifted across the valley from the Salton Sea. We turned onto a small road lined with neat rows of stucco homes and cactus gardens, and after about a mile the road came to an end at two wooden gates.

The gates soared more than twenty feet high, with intricate carvings of flowers and birds rising up giant block letters at the top that read: PORCUPINE CREEK .

Jesse picked up his handheld radio. Car three with Mr. Frank now at property, he said.

A voice answered: Entry granted, proceed.

The gates swung open to reveal a lush, water-filled wonderlanda stark contrast to the parched desert we were leaving behind.

The freshly washed driveway was lined with tropical flowers, palm trees, and antique French streetlamps that had once lined the Champs-lyses. Streams and waterfalls gurgled alongside the road. Birds sang, and teams of gardeners, all wearing matching white polo shirts and khakis, waved as we passed by. When we reached the top of the first hill, Jesse slowed down to offer a view of a nineteen-hole golf course stretching for 240 acres at the foot of the mountains like a vast green welcome mat.

Does he live in a golf community? I asked Jesse.

Jesse laughed. Its his golf course.

As I considered the practicality of owning and maintaining your own golf course in the middle of the desert, we pulled up to a circular driveway in front of an equally impressive display: a water fountain modeled after the famed Bellagio fountain in Las Vegas (but bigger, Blixseth insisted), shooting brightly lit arcs of water into the sky. Behind the fountain, the main house came into viewa sprawling Mediterranean mansion, rising over three stories with carved balconies, porticos, pillars, and large picture windows. It was lit by dozens of outdoor torches and surrounded by guest villas, pools, and gardens.

We pulled up to the imperial entry hall, where two life-size terra-cotta Chinese soldiers stood guard in front of a pair of bronze lions. The front door of the house opened, and out burst Tima smiling, compact man in a Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts.

Roberto! he said, holding out a glass of Chardonnay. Welcome to our humble abode. Its not much, but we call it home.

In 2006, Tim was little known outside a small circle of rich people in Palm Springs and California. But he was about to land on the Forbes list as one of the richest people in America, with an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.

Tim and his outgoing blond wife, Edra, had made their fortune in timber and real estate. Their biggest trophy and their greatest source of wealth was the Yellowstone Club, a 10,000-acre private golf and ski resort nestled in the Montana Rockies that counted Bill Gates, cycling star Greg LeMond, and former vice president Dan Quayle as members, along with host of other recently rich corporate chiefs and finance executives. Officially, members had to have a minimum net worth of $7 million to join, but most were far richer, since they had to build a home at Yellowstone and buy land, which cost more than $2 million an acre. Once approved, they had the run of a golf course and ski area populated solely by fellow millionaires and billionaires. No one had to worry about the occasional non-rich interlopers you might encounter in, say, Aspen or Palm Beach. They enjoyed heated gondolas and CEO-friendly ski trails with names such as Learjet Glades and EBITDA (a corporate term that means earnings before taxes, depreciation, and amortization).

The Yellowstone Club was a huge success. By 2006, plots of land were selling for five times their original price. The club not only made Tim and Edra rich but also turned them into the unofficial innkeepers of the new elite, as they hosted the ultra-wealthy of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street, and Washington. Porcupine Creek boasted wall after wall of photographs of the Blixseths with George Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gerald Ford, Mariel Hemingway, and other notables.

Their lifestyle was unapologetically excessive, even by the standards of the mid-2000s. They owned two yachts, three private jets, two Rolls-Royce Phantoms (his and hers), seven homes, a private island in the Caribbean, and a castle in France.

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