The super-rich are paying cash -- and it's making things harder for everyone else

The globe's superwealthy -- the 1 percent -- are driving alternative investments into a new frenzy of hard cash deals. This reallocation of capital into rare art, multimillion-dollar condos, personal luxury purchases, bitcoin and other alternative investments are sending prices to stratospheric highs, according to analysts. The price surges, on the weirdest fundamentals in years,...