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The 29 richest people in America
Of the world's wealthiest people, the majority still hail from the world's top economic superpower — the United States. There are 29 US billionaires who rank among the 50 richest on earth, and they...
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A superyacht belonging to Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen allegedly...
Tatoosh, a 300-foot yacht owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, allegedly did some serious damage to a coral reef in the Cayman Islands, according to the Cayman News Service.The cause?...
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The 8 richest people in Europe
Europe is home to many of the most powerful and economically developed countries in the world, as well as more than 740 million people. But only eight of the 50 richest people in the world come from...
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'GOOGLE IT': Donald Trump promotes conspiracy theory, fake photo of Megyn...
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump promoted a fake photo and a conspiracy theory in the middle of his Thursday-morning tweetstorm blasting Fox News and one of the network's anchors, Megyn Kelly.Trump...
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Billionaire Saudi prince fires back after Donald Trump promotes fake photo of...
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal fired back at Donald Trump on Thursday after the Republican presidential front-runner promoted a fake photo of him to attack Fox News.Trump shared a photo on...
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Take a tour of San Francisco's 'Billionaires' Row,' where old money and tech...
When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire wiped the city clean, the wealthy stood around the burned rubble of their Nob Hill homes and took a cool, hard look at San Francisco Bay. The best view...
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The 10 richest people in finance
The world's top investors spend their days handling money and generating substantial returns for their clients — and the best of the best make billions for themselves in the process. Business Insider...
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How IKEA creator Ingvar Kamprad built the world's largest furniture retailer...
Swedish business magnate Ingvar Kamprad has been at the helm of IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture stores and most beloved brands, for more than 70 years.With a net worth of $39.3 billion, the...
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Walmart heiress Alice Walton is the richest woman in the world
With a net worth of $33.2 billion, Alice Walton isn't just the wealthiest woman on our list of the 50 richest people on earth, she's also a member of one of the richest families in the world. Alice,...
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Meet the richest man in Africa — the only black billionaire among the world's...
There's only one person in all of Africa who makes the list of the 50 richest people on earth: Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote. When our ranking was released, Dangote's net worth stood at $14.3...
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The 10 richest people in Asia
The largest continent by size and population, Asia has also grown into a financial powerhouse. It's home to the world's second-, third-, and ninth-largest economies in China, Japan, and India,...
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The 13 richest people in tech
Almost one-fourth of the 50 richest people on earth made their extraordinary fortunes founding and building today's largest tech companies.Together, the 13 billionaires have a net worth of about $450...
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The 25 richest self-made billionaires
Of the 50 richest people in the world, most built their wealth up from nothing, creating some of the most powerful companies out there — including Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Nike, and Google — along...
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This is what it's like to watch a 'Master of the Universe' lose money
I've heard a lot of stories about investors losing money in my time covering Wall Street.There are lots of ways to do it, and lots of ways to react to it.By far the most fascinating people to observe...
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The 15 richest people in retail
Retail is an enormous and profitable industry. Global sales were projected to top $24 trillion in 2015 and are expected to grow another 3.2% this year, making the magnates who run the sector's largest...
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16 billionaires who inherited their fortunes
We recently released our list of the 50 richest people on earth based on data from Wealth-X, which conducts research on the super-wealthy. Many of the billionaires on the list came from humble...
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7 billionaires who are extremely frugal
Frugality is a subjective term. To the average Joe it could mean eating meals at home or scouring the Internet for cheap flights. But to a billionaire it means showing up to work in a t-shirt and...
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Australian politicians returned Rolexes given to them by a Chinese...
High-level Australian politicians, including a former opposition leader, have returned a bunch of Rolex watches gifted to them by a Chinese billionaire after realizing they were actually real, The...
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Out of the 50 richest people in the world, only 4 are women — here's why
Business Insider recently published a list of the 50 richest people on earth with data provided by Wealth-X, a firm that conducts research on the super-wealthy. Of these 50 billionaires, only four (8%)...
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An exact replica of the Titanic will set sail in 2018 — and there will be...
More than a century since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, an Australian billionaire has announced his plans to resurrect the iconic ship.It's called Titanic II. And after a...
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