Excerpt from Chris Dorsey’s latest column in Forbes
Tracking the financial moves of high-net worth people is as American as aspiring to be rich. When Warren Buffett (the Oracle of Omaha himself) speaks, for instance, legions of people hang on his every word. While many moves of the wealthy are relatively easy to follow—stock purchases, business investments and fads that go with the lifestyles of the rich and famous—there is one growing trend among the super wealthy that has largely been missed by coastal media gatekeepers.
The rich are gobbling up land far from population centers. The current trend isn’t so much the usual ranch swapping between billionaires looking for a trout dividend, but rather the motivations are rooted in the notion that America is undergoing profound and fundamental change.
