Puff Daddy once sung “I don’t know what they want from me, it’s like the more money we come across the more problems we see”, and in 2013 he couldn’t have been any more correct.
You may have noticed a few ludicrous art sales happening lately, what with this Andy Warhol painting going for a billion rand, and this Francis Bacon piece which was sold for a billion and a half. But how is this value created? Where does it come from and how does it rise so exponentially? Perhaps the world of crime is to blame.