Editor’s Note: This topic is now comprehensively covered in my book, Broken Money. Money is a surprisingly complex subject. People spend their lives seeking money, and in some ways it seems so straightforward, and yet what humanity has defined as money has changed significantly over the centuries. How could something so simple and so universal, […]

McDonald’s is one of the biggest real estate companies in the world. It owns $28.4 billion worth of land and buildings (before depreciation).