John Prideaux
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
John Prideaux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Tocqueville Road Trip: 1. Game of chance · 13 Jun 2026
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And it's hard not to read Mamdani's election as a sign that lots of people think America's basic deal with its citizens work hard, get ahead no longer exists.
Polling bears this out.
Only 30% of Americans aged under 30 think they'll be better off than their parents.
And more than sixty percent say that American democracy is either in trouble or has completely failed.
Barbara's response to this has been to withdraw into the past.
But as I continue in Tocqueville's footsteps, I'm about to meet a wealthy New Yorker who has taken a different approach.
One whose story takes us closer to a vision of America's future.
It's a public holiday, but John Katzmatides is in his office in Midtown Manhattan.
He's busy showing me some of his favourite photos.
This is the White House.
that's Margot your wife dancing with President Clinton.
Yes.
Almost all of these pictures feature John or members of his family next to famous American politicians from both parties.
It's like a who's who of powerful Americans.
There's Ronald Reagan again and Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama.
John is a heavy set man in his late seventies, wearing a rumpled black suit, blue tie with Greek columns on it, and a fleece vest.
Cockville might have called it a gile.
His office is not what I imagined a billionaire's workplace to look like.
A desk that looks like a hand grenade detonated nearby.
Screens and wires everywhere, an old iPhone repurposed as a clock.
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