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Living through the remainder of 2022 was an exercise in the "Great Unraveling." We moved from a sprawling estate to a "discreet" rental, stripped of the army of staff that had previously handled every aspect of existence. I watched a man who had once commanded industries struggle with the mundanity of a frozen credit card.

2022: My Life with an Oligarch The year 2022 began like a fever dream of gold leaf and private jets, but it ended as a cold lesson in the fragility of power. To live in the orbit of an oligarch is to exist in a curated reality where the laws of physics and finance seem optional—until the world decides to reassert them. The Gilded Bubble 2022---My-life-with-an-oligarch

The shift was psychological as much as financial. The confidence that had once radiated from him—the absolute certainty that any problem could be bought off—evaporated. The phone calls changed. They were no longer about acquisitions or mergers; they were hushed, frantic conversations about offshore accounts, frozen assets, and "restructuring." The social circle, once teeming with sycophants and power-players, shrank overnight. In the high-stakes world of the ultra-wealthy, "contagion" is the most feared word, and we had become the source. The Great Unraveling Living through the remainder of 2022 was an