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Signs of future noncompliance with Trump’s whims may cripple Iraq’s rentier economy and imperil its ability to pay pensioners and employees.
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Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Is the result a concentration of even more assets, whether stocks, bonds, real estate, or other choices, in the hands of wealthier people, building a greater rentier dynamic?
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Iran, by contrast, has a rentier economy more akin to that of Russia.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Is the result a concentration of even more assets, whether stocks, bonds, real estate, or other choices, in the hands of wealthier people, building a greater rentier dynamic?
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Iran, by contrast, has a rentier economy more akin to that of Russia.
—Karim Sadjadpour, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025
Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Rentier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rentier. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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rentier
noun
ren·tier
rän-ˈtyā, ˈrän-ˌtyā 
: a person who lives on income from property or securities
Etymology
French, from rente income from a property, rent
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