Hyatt Hotels: The Last Neutral Zones of a Fractured World
The Hyatt Hotel chain—those gleaming lobbies of engineered tranquility and overpriced club sandwiches—has quietly become the canary in the coal mine of global capitalism. Once merely a Midwestern family business peddling clean sheets and watered-down bourbon, Hyatt now operates as a diplomatic back-channel, money-laundering laundromat, and soft-power projection screen from Jakarta to Johannesburg. The potted…