Ferrari 849 Testarossa: A Global Love Affair with Speed, Sin, and Selective Amnesia By Dave’s Locker International Desk Maranello, Italy – The world’s billionaires have a new collective crush, and its name is the Ferrari 849 Testarossa. While the rest of us queue for eggs that cost more than last year’s rent, the planet’s .001…
Dirtbag Billionaire: A Global Field Guide to the New Gilded Age’s Anti-Hero By the time you finish this paragraph, another hoodie-clad centi-millionaire will have declared himself a “dirtbag billionaire” on a podcast recorded from the cargo hold of his Gulfstream. The phrase—equal parts self-deprecating marketing stunt and accurate character assessment—has already achieved the rare linguistic…
The Global Gospel of the Scratch-and-Pray: Why the World Gambles on Six Magic Numbers By “Lucky” László Kovács, International Desk Somewhere between the refugee camp outside Cox’s Bazar and the air-conditioned lottery kiosks of Madrid’s Barajas Airport, the same slip of paper is doing the rounds: a lottery ticket, flimsy as a cease-fire promise and…
Mega Millions Winning Numbers: The Global Lottery Where Everyone Loses Except One Guy in Ohio By the time the white balls tumbled out of the gravity chamber in Atlanta, the planet had already placed its bets. In Manila, a call-center agent on his smoke break refreshed the app six times, convinced that 07-15-24-41-43 + 22…
The People’s Lottery: When the Whole Planet Buys the Same Ticket By Diego “Lucky” Morales, International Correspondent-at-Large, currently hiding from my bookie in Lisbon They say lotteries are taxes on people who are bad at math. If that’s true, the newly christened “People’s Lottery” is the first truly global fiscal policy—voluntary, enthusiastic, and administered not…
Mega Millions: How a $1.6 Billion Mirage Seduces the Planet By Our Man in the Cheap Seats At 11 p.m. Eastern last night, a single American lottery draw produced more overnight billionaires than most African stock exchanges manage in a decade. The Mega Millions jackpot—$1.6 billion and change—had swollen to the kind of figure normally…
Wisconsin Lottery: Where Dairyland Dreams Meet the Global Delusion of Getting Rich Without Actually Doing Anything By Our Man in Geneva, Still Recovering from the Last Davos After-Party MADISON—From the air, Wisconsin looks like a polite green doily laid over North America’s midriff, all silos, supper clubs, and the occasional cow wondering why the grass…
Powerball en Vivo Hoy: The World Holds Its Breath for a Billion-Dollar Fever Dream By Dave’s Locker Correspondent, somewhere between a bar in Lisbon and a rooftop in Manila Tonight, at precisely 22:59 Eastern Standard Time, the multicolored balls of destiny will tumble inside a plastic drum in Tallahassee, Florida—population 200,000, humidity 400%. Somewhere between…
