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Meet Madrid’s landlords: US funds, banks
One attendee, Elsa Riquelme, described her yearslong battle to stay in the 600-square-foot apartment where she raised her three sons, which is now owned by Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm Benjamin Cunningham Published 29.04.25, 06:32 AM Exterior of the Carabanchel Metro station in Madrid Sourced by the Telegraph On a chilly winter night, a few dozen people gathered inside a graffiti-clad building in the Carabanchel district of Madrid.
¿El mayor arrendador de Madrid? Empresas de inversión estadounidenses
Últimas NoticiasRusia invade UcraniaDeportesVenezuelaTecnologíaESPNQué Puedo VerEntretenimientoEEUU Real Estate and Housing (Residential)Madrid (Spain)Barcelona (Spain)Blackstone Ventures IncorporatedGoldman Sachs Group Inc En una fría noche de invierno, varias decenas de personas estaban reunidas en un edificio cubierto de grafitis en el distrito madrileño de Carabanchel.
Madrid's Biggest Landlord? U.S. Investment Firms Original
As private equity firms assert control over much of Spain's housing, thousands face the threat of eviction. In 2013, the American private equity firm Blackstone bought 1,860 apartments in Madrid for about $146 million, including hundreds of units in the PAU development in the Carabanchel district. Credit...
On luxurious Ibiza, essential workers are forced to live in tent cities
By Benjamin Cunningham At 1,900 euros a month, the rent was not cheap. But Alicia Bocuñano still felt fortunate to find an apartment on Ibiza at that price. As a taxi driver pulling 16-hour days, Bocuñano, a single mother who grew up on this Spanish island, figured that a surplus from the busy summer months might be enough to make the rent. But her would-be landlord wanted six months of rent plus a security deposit upfront — close to 14,000 euros (about $15,300) in one shot.
On luxurious Ibiza, essential workers are forced to live in tent cities
At 1,900 euros a month, the rent was not cheap. But Alicia Bocuñano still felt fortunate to find an apartment on Ibiza at that price. As a taxi driver pulling 16-hour days, Bocuñano, a single mother who grew up on this Spanish island, figured that a surplus from the busy summer months might be enough to make the rent. But her would-be landlord wanted six months of rent plus a security deposit upfront — close to 14,000 euros (about $15,300) in one shot.
On Luxurious Ibiza, Essential Workers Are Forced to Live in Tent Cities Original
In lieu of a new apartment, Ms. Bocuñano, 38, spent a frightening two weeks sleeping in her car, then three months in a tent with her 10-year-old son, Raúl, by her side, before buying a used caravan in June. For a couple of months, she stationed the Caravelair-brand trailer in Can Rova, an ad hoc village of tents, shacks and campers on the outskirts of Ibiza Town, the island's capital, just behind a dealership selling expensive powerboats. "When we first came here it was cold," she said.
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
A short book of two essays by Milan Kundera, who died in July, shows that he did not speak or write with a historical outlook of minutes, days, or weeks. He was thinking in centuries. A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera. Faber & Faber, 2023. 74 pages. Two priests meet up at U Cerneho vola. By the time they start drinking their second beer, they find themselves in a deep theological debate. Back and forth the argument goes. But they just cannot come to an agreement.
Is Author Benjamin Cunningham a Spy?
Author Benjamin Cunningham thinks Connery is the best Bond, lost his last Muay Thai fight and we THINK he is not a spy. The book is “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War”. Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon is the conversation series where actors, artists, authors, and more go deeper than a traditional interview. They go “Beyond the Mic”. VIDEO More about:
Is Author of "The Liar" Benjamin Cunningham a Spy?
Author Benjamin Cunningham thinks Connery is the best Bond, lost his last Muay Thai fight and we THINK he is not a spy. The book is “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War”. Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon is the conversation series where actors, artists, authors, and more go deeper than a traditional interview. They go “Beyond the Mic”. VIDEO More about:
Author Mark Bittman
Welcome Mark: We’re joined on the Starline by a New York Times bestselling author of over 30 books. His latest is a revised and revamped edition of “How to Cook Everything Fast”. We welcome author Mark Bittman. AG Mark, let’s go Beyond the Mic. You’ve tackled food in so many ways. Why was it time to revise and extend your remarks on fast cooking? Which recipe was the first one that you had to go back and fix? How did the pandemic change the way you look at food and cooking?
Joel Larsgaard from How to Money
Welcome Joel: We’re joined on the Starline by one half of the money podcast “How to Money”. He’s on a mission to give you unbiased jargon-free financial guidance. We welcome money saver Joel Larsgaard. Joel, let’s go Beyond the Mic. Your podcast has been downloaded more than 20 million times, you’ve produced Clark Howard. How has your family’s financial troubles growing up force you to become a saver sooner than others? What’s the hardest lesson people need to learn with money?
Author of "Loud" Tana Douglas
Welcome Tana: We’re joined on the Starline by the first female roadie. Tana has worked in rock n roll for thirty years, three continents and many bands. Her book is “LOUD” and we welcome author Tana Douglas. Tana, let’s go Beyond the Mic. “Dad, if I don’t see Janis play at Woodstock, I’ll never, ever have another chance!” For all the shows you’ve set up, seen and tore down, is this the only one you regret not seeing still? Fifteen years old and playing your first guitar.
Author Ramit Sethi
Welcome Ramit: We’re joined on the Starline by a Stanford grad who has been on the New York Times bestseller list for his work on personal finance. He has written the companion to his initial book “I Will Teach You to Be Rich, The Journal”. We welcome Ramit Sethi. Ramit, let’s go Beyond the Mic. You started back on 2004 with a dream of helping people obtain a rich life. How is The Journal the next logical step on this path? How hard is it for people to understand money?
Author of "The Liar" Benjamin Cunningham Discusses His Book
Author Benjamin Cunningham thinks Connery is the best Bond, lost his last Muay Thai fight and we THINK he is not a spy. The book is “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War”. Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon is the conversation series where actors, artists, authors, and more go deeper than a traditional interview. They go “Beyond the Mic”. VIDEO More about:
Is Benjamin Cunningham a Spy? Author of "The Liar"
Author Benjamin Cunningham thinks Connery is the best Bond, lost his last Muay Thai fight and we THINK he is not a spy. The book is “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War”. Beyond the Mic with Sean Dillon is the conversation series where actors, artists, authors, and more go deeper than a traditional interview. They go “Beyond the Mic”. VIDEO More about:
Author of "Why We Travel" Patricia Schultz -
Welcome Patricia: We’re joined on the Starline by a New York Times bestselling author and veteran travel journalist. She’s written for multiple travel guides as well as several newspapers and magazines. Her latest book is “Why We Travel” We welcome author Patricia Schultz Patricia, let’s go Beyond the Mic. Your love of travel started with a gap year. How has your love of travel evolved over the years? Your book is filled with such amazing photos, which is your favorite of the entire book?
Invicta FC Founder Shannon Knapp
Welcome Shannon: We’re joined on the Starline by a woman who has spent years in MMA promotion and when everyone else said it would fail, she just fought on. We welcome the founder of Invicta Fighting Championships Shannon Knapp. Shannon, let’s go Beyond the Mic. You have fought the world to show great entertainment. How has the fight game changed you? Your upcoming fight card has Jessica “The Queen” Delboni vs Jillian “Lionheart” Decoursey in an atomweight title fight.
The Cold War Is Dead. Not Even Tom Cruise Can Bring It Back Original
Have you seen that Top Gun sequel yet? Squint your eyes and it’s hard to know whether it’s 1986 or 2022. And really, who cares? Aviator shades and leather bomber jackets never go out of style. Turn up the electric guitars and scramble the jets. Best not ask too many questions. Hollywood loves a good sequel, prequel, or remake. They come with a built-in audience. The filmmaker doesn’t need a new idea. Marketers don’t have to convince an audience that said new idea is worth their time.
Author Benjamin Cunningham on "The Liar"
Welcome Benjamin Cunningham: We’re joined on the Starline by a journalist, writer and PhD candidate. He has reported from more than 40 countries and his book “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War” is now out. We welcome author Benjamin Cunningham. Benjamin, let’s go Beyond the Mic. Spies are all around the world, doing their bidding for their governments and in some cases companies. Why was Karel the last honest man of the cold war?
‘The Liar’ and other Cold War Complexities with Benjamin Cunningham
Though I am old enough to have lived through the latter years of the Cold War, many of my strongest impressions from this historical period come from books and films. My favorite Cold War stories, fiction and nonfiction alike, traffic in moral ambiguity. They are about human beings making their way in an imperfect world. Sometimes these characters have selfish motives, and other times it feels like systems or circumstances push them to do things they otherwise wouldn’t.
History in Color
Nearly 100 years after her birth, Agneša Kalinová’s story serves as a bridge to an entirely transformed Central Europe. The book is divided into seven sections, each corresponding with the journalist’s so-called ‘lives’ and her memories bring color to what might otherwise appear as black and white images.
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man|Hardcover
The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely—and they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. They were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent.
Illiberal Democracy, Season Three
Aviezer Tucker, Democracy Against Liberalism, Polity Press 2020, 211 pp Before Donald Trump was a television game show host, he started a fake university and sold neckties, cologne, steaks and vodka branded with his name. Perhaps inevitable, Trump’s political success has also given rise to a whole new category of consumer product: books attempting to make sense of how a guy whose hair resembles a dead raccoon might become President of the United States.
Innovation on and off the pitch at FC Barcelona
Think:Act Magazine Central Europe Barça Innovation Hub’s Marta Plana is directing a new era of sports performance and innovation. by Benjamin Cunningham photos by Edu Bayer Read more about the topic "Rethinking Growth" FC Barcelona's success on the pitch gives the club global reach. Now, the Barça Innovation Hub is leveraging that brand to develop technologies with impact beyond sports. Looking out from the presidential box of Europe's largest stadium, it's clear FC Barcelona has some big boasts.
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First I Am Going to Eat: A Conversation with Carlos Zanón
JUNE 28, 2019 DESPITE A SPATE of translations from the Melville International Crime imprint, the fictional detective Pepe Carvalho is still relatively underappreciated by English-language readers. In addition to his native Spain, Carvalho is esteemed in France, Italy, and wide swathes of South America.
The Intellectual Insurrection
Dreamers: When the Writers took Power Volker Weidermann Germany, 1918. Pushkin Press, 253 pp, 2018 It feels like this is an era opposed to intellect. The President of the United States prefers to communicate via Twitter—a medium where he has half as many followers as pop star Katy Perry—and persists in misspelling messages.
A Mood of Revolt
ALONG WITH BARRICADES, cobble-stone projectiles, and poetic graffiti slogans like, “Il est interdit d’interdire” (It is forbidden to forbid) and, “Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible” (Be realistic, ask the impossible), Daniel Cohn-Bendit — a.k.a. “Dany the Red” for both his hair and politics — is an icon of the May 1968 uprising in France.
Totalitarian Politics Are Local
THINKERS HAVE LONG FEARED the coming populist upheaval. Sometimes they were even justified. “The masses are advancing,” Hegel reportedly worried just a few years after the American and French revolutions. “[W]e are witnessing the triumph of a hyperdemocracy in which the mass acts directly, outside the law,” José Ortega y Gasset wrote in 1929, before a civil war led to four decades of fascist dictatorship in Spain.
A Familiar Refrain - Aspen Institute Central Europe
Philosopher George Santayana’s maxim, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is frequently quoted, but almost always in a way that contradicts his larger argument. On the very same page in Reason in Common Sense, Santayana goes on to distinguish between the intellectual capacity of human beings at various stages in life.
Nothing Will Go Back: An Interview with Dr. Andrea Pető of Central European University
WHEN I FIRST read Dr. Andrea Pet?’s writing earlier this year, I was thrilled to have found a vocal feminist scholar from Hungary. Her progressive work on gender provided a counterpoint to my image of contemporary Hungary, which is ruled by a tight-fisted and “illiberal” regime, whose right-wing views leave little room for feminism. Under Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the government has encroached on independent media and academic freedom.
Why My $230 Donation To The Clinton Foundation Was Money Well Spent
This week, the Clinton Foundation – perhaps the most scrutinized name in philanthropy – is posting the names of those who donated in the first half of 2015. My name will appear on this list. The $230 I gave to the Clinton Foundation isn’t a large enough sum to save the world. It isn’t sexy enough to make headlines, or salacious enough to rouse cable news’ talking heads.
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