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American billionaires have made an average of $42 billion a week throughout...
The collective fortunes of American billionaires grew an average of $42 billion during each week of the coronavirus pandemic, a new analysis by the Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for...
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Taxing billionaires would be a great way to fund the fight against...
The idea of taxing the ultra-wealthy to cover the immense cost of fighting the coronavirus pandemic has gained steam in recent weeks.But economists told Business Insider that despite growing public...
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WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is selling off more real estate after losing...
WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann lost his billionaire status in April, according to Bloomberg.The ousted CEO is now worth between $450 million and $750 million, based on estimates from Forbes and...
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Want to become a billionaire? These are the industries that have minted the...
Some industries produce a lot more ultrawealthy people than others.While some have become billionaires working in the food and beverage sector, a lot more people become extremely rich in real...
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Jeff Bezos is now personally worth more than Nike, McDonald's, Costco, and...
Jeff Bezos is worth more than Nike, McDonald's, and Costco.Amazon's stock surge has boosted its CEO's net worth to $186 billion, which exceeds the market capitalizations of Nike ($122 billion),...
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How long it took 11 of the world's richest people to become billionaires
UK-based sports betting firm OLBG found that it takes the average self-made billionaire 21 years to join the three comma club after starting out, but some entrepreneurs get rich faster than others.eBay...
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The richest people in Singapore, ranked
The richest people in Singapore include real-estate magnates, private investors, the cofounder of Facebook, and hot pot billionaires, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list.Singapore's...
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I drove down 'Billionaire Lane' in the Hamptons, where Wall Street execs,...
Meadow Lane in Southampton is known as the Hamptons' "Billionaire Lane" thanks to its ultrawealthy homeowners.Its residents over the years have included late billionaire conservative donor David Koch,...
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13 successful tech leaders who struggled as immigrants before making it in...
The tech industry is filled with powerful stories of immigrants who made it big after moving to the United States.For many now-moguls, however, there were struggles and strife along the path to their...
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I'm a magician who gets hired by billionaires to wow their friends at parties...
Dan Chan has branded himself as the "billionaire's magician"— he's performed globally for the ultra-rich and their families and friends, commanding top rates for magic shows.Chan's career really took...
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Meet two of the world's youngest self-made billionaires, the Irish brothers...
Patrick and John Collison, are the cofounders of Stripe, a payments platform where Patrick is CEO and John is President.The brothers started Stripe, designed to transform the way people make online...
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Hundreds of pitchfork-wielding protesters gathered outside billionaires'...
Hundreds of protesters marched through the Hamptons Thursday with pitchforks calling for a tax on New York's wealthiest citizens.The protesters called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raise taxes on New York's...
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MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, donated $1.7 billion on...
MacKenzie Scott (formerly MacKenzie Bezos) announced Wednesday that she had donated $1.7 billion to 116 different organizations tackling a variety of social issues.By Friday afternoon, the value of her...
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The 10 richest people in the Middle East, ranked
The Middle East, a region that encompasses many countries, including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, is known for its oil-derived wealth.Business Insider rounded up the...
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos got $14 billion richer in a single day as...
Amazon, Apple, and Facebook all reported blowout earnings on Thursday. The companies' stock prices all soared following the reports, helping executives continue their winning streak. But as a whole,...
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Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give their fortunes away through Warren...
Over 75% of the original signatories to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge — a promise to give away the majority of their wealth — are richer now than they were when they signed in 2010, a...
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The richest families in the world, ranked
The richest families in the world own billions, possessing $1.4 trillion in wealth collectively, according to Bloomberg.This wealth is derived from various industries, including retail, media,...
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New York City residents saw their wealth drop 13% in the last year
As Bloomberg's Jack Pitcher reports, a new report from Webster Pacific and New World Wealth found that, looking at wealth levels from June 2020, the combined wealth of New Yorkers shrank by around $336...
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The richest family in Hong Kong lost $8 billion in the past year — and it...
Hong Kong's richest family, the Kwoks, are $8 billion less rich than they were 12 months ago, Bloomberg's Venus Feng and Blake Schmidt reported.The Kwok brothers inherited their $30 billion fortune...
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Meet Zhang Yiming, the secretive Chinese billionaire behind TikTok who made...
Zhang Yiming built a $16.2 billion fortune after founding ByteDance, the Chinese software developer behind TikTok.Despite being one of the wealthiest people in China, Zhang is extremely private and...
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