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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the H-BRA Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green. I'm talking today with

Christina Freeland, the editor at Thompson Reuters Digital, and author of Plutocrats, the rise of the

new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else.

Christina, thanks so much for talking with us today.

Pleasure to be here.

So it's a great title, and I have to admit I was a little saddened to realize that it was not in fact a how-to manual.

Others have pointed that out to me.

Yes.

But it was interesting because it's this sort of fascinating portrait of this new kind of

ultra-rich person and I was reminded of the exchange

sort of famous perhaps apocryphal exchange between Hemingway and Fitzgerald

where Fitzgerald says the rich are very different from you and me and having ways as yes they have more money

so my first question to you is are these people these really super ultra-rich

really different or did they just have lots of money?

So that exchange is perhaps apocryphal,

but there is a line which may or may not

be derived from that exchange in one of his stories where he talks about how the

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