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• 1 in 20 Americans is a Millionaire - TIME Magazine.
• 3 commas club - three commas to implie a billion dollars as $1,000,000,000 has 3 commas.
• 5 Billionaires Who Have Gained The Most Since Trump Became President - "On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump delivered his inaugural address, promising to 'make America wealthy again.' In the three years since that day, America has certainly gotten wealthier, with the U.S. stock market surging 47%. But the five biggest gainers are people who were already exceedingly rich."
• 3 Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "Those are mysteries Forbes has grappled with for 20 years. Figuring out Putin’s net worth is probably the most elusive riddle in wealth hunting–harder than the heirs, other heads of state and even drug lords that we’ve financially smoked out over the years. Uncovering private wealth is something we take very seriously, especially in Russia–the founding editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov, risked his life for this cause, and was shot in the streets of Moscow in 2004 as he was investigating the fortunes of Russia’s early oligarchs. So where and how much is the fortune that Biden threatens to sanction over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine? We don’t know. But over the years, leaning on sources and expertise, we’ve developed some theories."
• 5 of Jeff Bezos’ best lessons for success from his 27 years as Amazon CEO - "Monday marks Jeff Bezos’ final day as the CEO of Amazon, the company he launched in 1994 as an online bookseller that is now an ecommerce behemoth worth $1.7 trillion - the company that has made him the richest person in the world with a nearly $200 billion fortune. Over Bezos’ roughly 27 years as CEO, he’s regularly shared advice and lessons learned in interviews and his annual letters to Amazon shareholders."
• 5 people you didn't know were super rich - "Forbes and Bloomberg track the net worth of the wealthiest people. But what if we said there were secret billionaires too?"
• 5 richest men in the world double their money as poorest get poorer - "Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase."
• 6 Reasons the Rich Don’t Buy Luxury Cars - "Here are six reasons the rich do not buy luxury cars. Some of them might surprise you. Depreciating Asset. The rich know, as most of us do, that the second you drive a car off the lot, the value of the vehicle drops drastically."
• 6 things to know about the super-rich - "America's super rich: six things to know."
• 8 billionaires whose kids won’t inherit their fortunes - "From Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. "
• 8 of the richest kings in history - "Throughout history, numerous kings have amassed immense wealth, often through conquest, trade, and strategic marriages. These monarchs wielded significant power and influence, leaving a lasting impact on their nations and the world. Here are eight of the richest kings in history, whose fortunes and legacies continue to fascinate us."
• 8 Tips For Building Wealth - "There’s no magic formula for building wealth and getting rich. It’s simple, really: Spend less than you earn, and save as much money as you possibly can. If your goal is to get rich, check out the following eight tips on how you can sidestep the obstacles and maintain your focus. They should help you understand what it takes to build wealth and find your way to financial security. 1. Establish Financial Goals - 2. Destroy Your Debt - 3. Create a Cushion - 4. Start Investing Now - 5. Diversify Your Portfolio - 6. Boost Your Income - 7. Learn about FIRE - 8. Avoid the Schemes." Forbes.
• 9 Books From Elon Musk’s Reading List That Could Change Your Life - "When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read."
• $10bn question: what happened to the Marcos millions?
• 10 cities with the most millionaires - "New York, Tokyo, and Paris are among the cities with the most wealthy residents, according to a new report by Henley & Partners, a firm that specializes in helping uber-rich clients invest their way into gaining residence and citizenship in various countries."
• 10 Habits the Wealthy Abandon After Leaving Poverty - "Wealth and poverty are two sides of a coin that can flip with the right mindset and actions. The journey from financial struggle to prosperity is often paved with significant changes in habits and behaviors."
• 10 Homes Isn’t Enough: Which Billionaires Own The Most Properties - "Take a peek into the sprawling real estate portfolios of America’s richest people." Forbes.
• 10 Richest People of All Time - CheatSheet.
• 10 Richest People of All Time - "A comparison of wealth across history."
• 10 Wealthiest Families in the World - Investopedia.
• 11 Lessons for Entrepreneurs From Jeff Bezos's Tremendous Success - "As the Amazon founder exits the CEO role, he leaves his successor a set of rules that might be helpful to any entrepreneur bent on conquering the known universe."
• 11 richest people in fashion - "Meet the billionaire brains behind brands from Louis Vuitton to Nike, Gucci to Uniqlo, Zara and H&M."
• 12 billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds - "Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk."
• 13 steps anyone can take to get rich - according to a journalist who spent his career studying millionaires.
• 15 Differences Between Rich & Poor Mindset - "In our society, we often see a divide between those with financial resources and those who struggle to meet their needs. It’s not just about the money they have, but also about their mindset. Let’s delve into the differences between the rich and the poor mindset."
• 15 Habits That Distinguish The Poor From The Rich - "We all wonder what makes the self-made rich different from the people unable to escape being poor. How do self-made millionaires achieve their wealth, and what keeps it growing? Through extensive studies and research, I’ve been able to identify a variety of habits that distinguish the two."
• 15 Success Habits: People Who Move From Poor To Rich Share These Success Habits - "Recent studies reveal that many wealthy individuals have built their fortunes from modest beginnings. Their journeys unveil a fascinating pattern of habits and mindsets transforming their financial trajectories. While each path to wealth is unique, successful individuals often share standard practices that drive wealth creation. These habits and mindsets form the foundation of their financial success, enabling them to overcome barriers and achieve prosperity."
• 18 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read - Business Insider.
• 19 crazy facts about Bill Gates' $123 million mansion - Business Insider.
• 25 Richest Americans reportedly paid ‘true tax rate’ of 3.4% as wealth rocketed - "ProPublica investigation shows how little US super-rich, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, reportedly paid between 2014 and 2018."
• 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam - "Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school."
• 31 billionaires are worth more than the US Treasury has in cash - "For context, 31 billionaires are each worth more than the federal government's $38.8 billion in cash, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Some of them, like fashion mogul Bernard Arnault - are worth a lot more. Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, has a net worth estimated at $193 billion."
• 41 super-rich's stunning planes, trains, automobiles & yachts - "Magnificent modes of transport that will make your jaw drop. Billionaires like to go from A to B in supreme comfort and style, and think nothing of splurging on the finest and most exclusive modes of transport imaginable. Read on to see the private jets, opulent trains, prestige cars and magnificent megayachts of the planet's richest people."
• 60 richest countries (1980-2023) - "This is the list of UN member states only. Dependent territories or disputed areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, Greenland, Virgin Islands, Bermuda... are not listed." TOP 10 Channel.
• $100 billion club has swelled to an unprecedented 15 members - "The combined net worth for these people is up 13% this year to $2.2 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, beating the pace of inflation and the broader stock market. Between them, they hold nearly a quarter of the wealth of the world’s 500 richest people."
• 100 MILLION DOLLAR SAVINGS RECEIPT LEFT IN AN ATM IN EAST HAMPTON
• 722 biggest companies ‘making $1tn in windfall profits’ - "The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1tn a year in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by development charities. The companies made $1.08tn this way in 2021 and $1.09tn last year, according to analysis of Forbes magazine data by the charities Oxfam and ActionAid. The collective profits were 89% higher than the previous four-year average covering 2017-2020."
• 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index - defining prosperity as a combination of wealth & wellbeing. The Prosperity Index ranks countries according to their performance across eight equally-weighted sub-indexes.
• 2014 TEFAF Art Market Report - "The global art market, with a focus on the US and China."
• 2015 Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report - Sotheby's International Realty.
• 2015 Global Wealth Report & Databook - Credit Suisse.
• 2015 World Wealth Report Capgemini & RBC Wealth Management.
• 2015 World's Billionaires - Forbes. Aggregate wealth: US$6.4 trillion.
• 2015: World's Richest People Got Poorer - Bloomberg News.
• 2016 World's Billionaires List - Forbes.
• 2017 Forbes Billionaires List - up 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 last year.
• 2017 list of world's top-earning hedge fund managers - Institutional Investor's Alpha.
• 2018 Global Wealth Report - Credit Suisse.
• 2018 List of America's Richest Self-Made Women - Forbes.
• 2021 Forbes World's Billionaires list - "It’s been a year like no other, and we aren’t talking about the pandemic. There were rapid-fire public offerings, surging cryptocurrencies and skyrocketing stock prices. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755 - 660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list - roughly one every 17 hours, including 210 from China and Hong Kong. Another 250 who’d fallen off in the past came roaring back. A staggering 86% are richer than a year ago.
  Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest for the fourth year running, worth $177 billion, while Elon Musk rocketed into the number two spot with $151 billion, as Tesla and Amazon shares surged.
  Altogether these billionaires are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020. The U.S. still has the most, with 724, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macao) with 698. We used stock prices and exchange rates from March 5 to calculate net worths. See below for the full list of the world’s billionaires and our methodology. For daily updated net worths of all 2,755 billionaires, check out our real-time billionaires rankings."
• £25,000-a-year private club flying members to UAE & India to get Covid vaccinations - "While the UK is amidst a countrywide Covid vaccination rollout programme, with eligibility determined by age and risk, the super-rich are already skipping the queue and heading overseas for the privilege."
• A Cautionary Tale of the World’s Superrich Blowing Millions on Art - Bloomberg.
• A new billionaire has been minted nearly every day during the pandemic - "Some 573 people have joined the billionaire ranks since 2020, bringing the worldwide total to 2,668, according to an analysis released by Oxfam on Sunday. That means a new billionaire was minted about every 30 hours, on average, so far during the pandemic."
• A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak - "The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveals hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful."
• absurd diets of the rich & famous - The Guardian.
• According to a Microsoft employee, Bill Gates would come to work in a Mercedes but would abruptly drive off from office in a fancy Golden Brown Porsche to meet women - Luxurylaunches.com.
• Actions The World’s Wealthiest Are Taking In Response To The Coronavirus Pandemic - "As the coronavirus pandemic has reached nearly every corner of the world, some of the planet’s wealthiest are helping the global effort to combat the COVID-19 outbreak and do what they can for the economy."
• affluenza - definition & explanation.
• Amazon, Following Apple, Reaches $1,000,000,000,000 in Value - "Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, is richer, by far, than anyone in the modern world."
• Amazon's Jeff Bezos now worth US$150 billion - CNN tech.
• Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event - in pictures - "Guests arrive at the extravagant wedding of power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant."
• Ambani wedding: The marathon Indian wedding turning heads around the world - "How much is too much? That's the question many in India are asking as the months-long wedding festivities for the youngest son of Asia's richest man enter their final phase."
• America's 1% Got Way Richer During the Pandemic. We Need a Onetime Wealth Tax to Help Rebuild the Country - "he coronavirus has been nothing less than a calamity. But more than a year into the pandemic, it is distressingly clear that although the virus affects everyone, we are not all in this together. Instead, the disease highlights and worsens existing fault lines in American society, especially economic inequality."
• America's 50 Most Generous Donors of 2013 - The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
• America’s Top Givers 2022: The 25 Most Philanthropic Billionaires - "The billions keep piling up for many of America’s great philanthropists. So, too, do their charitable contributions. The nation’s 25 biggest givers have donated a total of $169 billion over the course of their lifetimes, according to Forbes’ estimates. That’s up from $149 billion last year, partly due to new information uncovered by Forbes - but mostly due to another year of huge giving by these 25 mega-donors."
• Americans hoping to be part of country's 1% richest need to be worth at least $4.4m - "That's half of what resident of tax haven Monaco needs - where $8 million will get you in the exclusive club - according to The Knight Frank wealth report. "
• Amid Coronavirus Uncertainty, World's 20 Richest Billionaires Shed Nearly $300 Billion In One Month - "When the Dow Jones reached its all-time high on February 13, the top 20 fortunes combined for more than $1.4 trillion - a figure that has since crashed to $1.1 trillion. Monday alone accounted for $68 billion in losses as the S&P and Dow plunged 12% and 13%, respectively. "
• Anders Povlsen: Why a Danish billionaire bought the Highlands - "Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife Anne recently thanked the people of Scotland for their support after three of their four children died in the Sri Lanka attacks in April."
• Ann Getty, Publisher & Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79 - "She married into one of the world’s richest families but refused to let herself be marginalized as a socialite."
• Apple defends moving offshore profits to the tax haven of Jersey - engadget.
• Are billionaires really self-isolating on superyachts? - "When entertainment mogul David Geffen shared an image of his superyacht 'Rising Sun' at sea alongside the caption 'isolated in the Grenadines' last month, it's fair to say the post ruffled a few feathers."
• Are You Rich? Updated Study Defines What It Means To Be Wealthy - "It's a common question that people ask themselves - how well off am I compared to the rest of the population? Am I earning above, below or about average for someone of my age and background? Well, a new report from L’Observatoire des Inégalités, an independent organisation which studies inequality in French society, has defined what it means to be wealthy and how many people that includes. To be considered rich, a person must have a revenue of €3,673 per month ($3,903) - this amount is double that of the average person and comprises 4.5 million people in France."
• Are you rich? Where does your net worth rank in America? - "Three questions might change how you see yourself."
• Are You Richer Than Your Peers? The Net Worth Needed To Be In The Top 10% Of Your Age - "While the ultrawealthy 1% often dominates financial headlines, the real question for most Americans is whether their net worth is comparable to that of their peers. Understanding what it takes to be in the top 10% at your age can provide valuable insight into your financial standing and reveal the milestones for success at different stages of life."
• Art Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a Billionaire? - The New York Times.
• As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "Those are mysteries Forbes has grappled with for 20 years. Figuring out Putin’s net worth is probably the most elusive riddle in wealth hunting–harder than the heirs, other heads of state and even drug lords that we’ve financially smoked out over the years. Uncovering private wealth is something we take very seriously, especially in Russia–the founding editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov, risked his life for this cause, and was shot in the streets of Moscow in 2004 as he was investigating the fortunes of Russia’s early oligarchs. So where and how much is the fortune that Biden threatens to sanction over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine? We don’t know. But over the years, leaning on sources and expertise, we’ve developed some theories."
• Asia's 20 Richest Families Control $450 Billion - "The dynasties behind Reliance, Samsung and Suntory are among the region's wealthiest. Hong Kong clans make up 30% of the list."
• Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's 10 wealthiest people - "Ambani is the chairman and chief executive of one of India's most valuable companies, Reliance Industries. His net worth recently surged to $64.5 billion, edging out Oracle's Larry Ellison and French L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers for the No. 9 spot on the list, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ambani is the only person from Asia on the list."
• Asian billionaire who made a fortune from war - "Stanley Ho's escape to Macao in World War II laid the foundation for his fortune. But it wasn't without controversy."
• At 21, Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever - Forbes.

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• Battle in the Channel: seigneur of Sark takes on Barclay dynasty - "Christopher Beaumont is attempting to buy up abandoned hotels and other buildings owned by Telegraph billionaires."
• bcg 2012 wealth report - The Boston Consulting Group: "The Battle to Regain Strength: Global Wealth 2012".
• Before the Trumps, There Were the Wendels - The New York Times.
• Beijing overtakes NYC as 'Billionaire Capital of the World' - Fox News.
• Benjamin De Rothschild, Heir To Storied Banking Fortune, Dies At 57 - Forbes.
• Bene qui latuit, bene vixit - "One who lives well, lives unnoticed." Ovid's (43 BC–17 AD) Tristitia.
• Berlusconi leaves control of business empire to two eldest children - "Partner Marta Fascina is left 100 million euros. Friend and Mafia convict Dell'Utri given 30 million euros."
• Bernard Arnault Becomes World’s Richest Person As LVMH Stock Rises - "French fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault is the world’s richest person this Monday morning, with an estimated net worth of $186.3 billion - putting him $300 million above Jeff Bezos, who is worth $186 billion, and Elon Musk, worth $147.3 billion."
• Bernard Arnault: Europe's richest man is joining the SPAC craze - "Bernard Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods group LVMH, is the latest billionaire to embrace Wall Street's hot new way to raise money."
• Bernard Arnault joins Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates in $100 billion club - "Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates belong to an exclusive club of people worth over $100 billion, and it just got its 3rd member."
• Bernard Arnault’s Bad Bet: World’s Third Richest Person Finally Unloads Stake In French Retailer Carrefour - "French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault, the world’s third richest person, sold his remaining shares in French supermarket chain Carrefour on Tuesday, marking his exit from the firm fourteen years after he first invested in 2007. Arnault’s holding company, Financière Agache, sold its 5.5% stake in Carrefour at about $19 per share for a total of roughly $850 million before taxes."
• Bernard Arnault's Fortune Gets Fresh Lift From Louis Vuitton - "Bernard Arnault, Europe’s richest man, got another boost as LVMH shares reached a record due to better-than-expected sales of Louis Vuitton handbags and leather goods. Arnault surpasses Buffett in wealth again as stock surges."
• Bernie Madoff, infamous Ponzi schemer, has died - "Bernard Madoff, whose name became synonymous with financial fraud, died while serving a 150-year sentence in Federal Prison. He was 82 years old."
• Bernie Ecclestone spared jail after admitting tax fraud - Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was spared an immediate prison sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to misleading Britain’s tax authority about overseas assets worth more than 400 million pounds ($492 million). Ecclestone has also agreed a civil settlement with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), under which he will pay 652.6 million pounds covering tax, interest and penalties for 18 tax years between 1994 and 2022, prosecutor Richard Wright said.
• Bernie Madoff’s Former Hamptons Home Is Back On The Market For $22.5 Million - "Late disgraced financier Bernie Madoff’s former Hamptons home is back on the market, this time for $22.5 million. Madoff, who orchestrated one of, if not the largest, Ponzi schemes in history, was arrested in 2008 and pled guilty to 11 felonies, including securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison and died at the age of 82 in 2021 during his sentence."
• Bezos, Buffett, Ma And More: Biggest Billionaire Gainers Of The Decade - "Gleaned from the pages of a book purchased by accident at the University of Nebraska, Warren Buffett's investment philosophy–buy and hold stocks forever–has proven to be one of the best-performing strategies of all time. It has also paid off particularly well this past decade."
• Bezos Made Burgers, Musk Sold Video Games - "The First Jobs of World's Billionaires."
• Bilderberg Ahoy! Pompeo & Kushner join the billionaire boat club - "From a Swiss shore, the rich and mighty - and select, discreet reporters - could be seen enjoying the annual secretive summit."
• Bill & Melinda Gates are officially divorced as of Monday - "Neither party will receive spousal support or change their names."
• Bill & Melinda Gates divorce throws spotlight on money manager - "The management of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates fortune has drawn little scrutiny, but the couple’s announced split is casting a spotlight."
• Bill & Melinda Gates tap lawyers from Jeff Bezos’ costly divorce - "Each has added high-powered attorneys who worked on opposite ends of the divorce of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott."
• Bill & Melinda Gates' daughter hints that their divorce has been 'challenging' - "'It's been a challenging year, both collectively with the pandemic and for our families going through transitions,' she said, giving an oblique reference to the divorce."
• Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me - The New York Times.
• Bill Gates could oust Melinda French Gates from their foundation in 2023 - "Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are giving themselves a two-year trial period to see if they can co-parent the massive charitable foundation that they have treated as another one of their children."
• Bill Gates flounders as he is grilled on past dinners with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - "Telling PBS's Judy Woodruff meetings were a mistake and adding: 'well, he's dead, so ..."
• Bill Gates funnels $20 billion to foundation & plans to drop off list of wealthiest people - "Bill Gates is moving $20 billion of his wealth into the endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is ramping up its spending in the face of global challenges including the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. 'I will move down and eventually off of the list of the world's richest people,' Gates wrote in a blog post Wednesday. 'I have an obligation to return my resources to society in ways that have the greatest impact for improving lives. I hope others in positions of great wealth and privilege will step up in this moment too.'"
• Bill Gates has a ‘message’ for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos - "He may have fallen down the pecking order in the billionaire’ list but Bill Gates is still the fifth richest man in the world and a force to reckon with. Gates who has been rather low-key in the last few months has come out and taken a ‘dig’ at two of the world’s richest men - Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos."
• Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch & schedules every minute of his day - meet the man worth $80 billion - The Telegraph.
• Bill Gates is hanging on to these stocks for steady income - you can too - "Let’s take a look at three dividend plays that represent sizeable positions in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. After all, investment legend and BIll’s good pal Warren Buffett is a trustee of the foundation, so it might make sense to follow along - maybe with some of your spare change."
• Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? - "Gates has been buying land like it’s going out of style. He now owns more farmland than my entire Native American nation."
• Bill Gates left Microsoft amid affair investigation - "Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year."
• Bill Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 With $5 Billion Gift - Bloomberg.
• Bill Gates Might Have Been Richer Than Musk, Bezos Combined If... - "Bill Gates might have ended up richer than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined by hanging onto Microsoft Corp. rather than selling. Gates had the equivalent of 2.06 billion shares in September 1998, when the software maker first became the world's most-valuable company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Microsoft took back the top ranking from Apple Inc. on Oct. 29. Gates's 1998 holding would have been valued Friday at about $693 billion, topping Musk's net worth of $340.4 billion and Bezos's net worth of $200.3 billion. He sold the vast majority of his Microsoft stock before leaving the board in 2020."
• Bill Gates offered a hilarious gift to Warren Buffett on his 90th birthday - "Bill Gates offered a sweet and funny video tribute to his billionaire pal Warren Buffett Sunday in honor of his 90th birthday."
• BILL GATES ON 60 MINUTES - 13:28.
• Bill Gates on the difference between Elon Musk & Steve Jobs - "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has had the opportunity to meet and work alongside major tech giants, including late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. In an interview with Bloomberg, Gates was asked whether his contemporary Elon Musk could be considered the 'next Steve Jobs,' due to the advancements his companies Tesla and SpaceX have made in electric cars and reusable rockets, respectively."
• Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008 - "A Wall Street Journal report revealed execs approached the CEO in 2008 about flirtatious emails to a female midlevel staffer."
• Bill Gates says crypto & NFTs are a sham - "Those digital asset trends are '100% based on greater fool theory,' the Microsoft co-founder said Tuesday at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher. Gates added that he's 'not long or short' crypto. And he mocked Bored Apes NFTs, joking that 'expensive digital images of monkeys' will 'improve the world immensely.'"
• Bill Gates says he regrets his time spent with Jeffrey Epstein: 'It was a huge mistake' - "'It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there,' Gates said."
• Bill Gates: the man with the golden Porsche - "It turns out that Bill Gates was not the only one keeping a close eye on the comings and goings at the office car park."
• Bill Gates vehicle buys $2.2bn stake in Four Seasons from Saudi royal - "Tech billionaire cements control over luxury hotel group after deal with Prince Alwaleed."
• Bill Gates’ 10 Dividend Stocks - "In this article, we discuss the best dividend stocks according to Bill Gates. You can skip our detailed analysis of Bill Gates' investment philosophy and go directly to read Bill Gates' 5 Dividend Stocks."
• BILL GATES' FAMILY FURIOUS AT HIM - "The Bill and Melinda divorce has been a done deal for months, TMZ has learned, and they had a plan to announce it back in March ... a plan that included renting a remote, private island where the entire family -- with one BIG exception -- could avoid the media once the announcement was made ... sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ."
• Bill Gates’ issues at Microsoft, in private life before divorce from Melinda Gates - "Microsoft founder Bill Gates had a relationship with one of the company’s engineers that was deemed 'inappropriate', it’s been revealed."
• Bill Gates’ Rank On The Forbes 400 Is The Lowest It’s Been In 30 Years - "The Microsoft cofounder’s long streak as the country’s first or second richest has ended—in part due to stock transfers tied to his divorce."
• Billion dollar 'doomsday' bunkers - "How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse."
• Billion dollar+ software companies founded since 2003 - Atomico.
• Billion-dollar dynasties: These are the richest families in America - "Forbes’ definitive ranking of the nation’s 50 wealthiest clans includes the heirs to some of the country’s best known brands: Campbell’s Soup, Jack Daniel’s, Walmart and Chick-fil-A."
• Billionaire - Wikipedia.
• billionaire addresses - "Mansions & Home Addresses of Billionaires, Millionaires, and CEO's."
• Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse - "Say 'doomsday bunker' and most people would imagine a concrete room filled with cots and canned goods ..."
• billionaire boom - "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and six other tech titans made more than $360 billion during the pandemic, which may finally shatter the myth of the benevolent billionaire."
• Billionaire Lists Are Battling to Feed a Hunger for Rankings - The New York Times.
• Billionaire Streakers: These 17 People Made The First Forbes 400 In 1982 - And Are On The List Today.
• Billionaire Superyacht Toys: The 10 Coolest Toys & Tenders For 2022 - "'Every year I am excited to compile my favorite superyacht toys that will be offered up at the Monaco Yacht Show where thousands of yacht fans descend on Port Hercules to see the most exciting new yachts and toys as well as more than 300 exhibitors.'"
• Billionaire Wealth Hits $10 Trillion For First Time Ever Thanks To Government Stimulous - "Coronavirus has boosted total billionaire wealth to its highest level ever. Since the pandemic begun, the total wealth held by billionaires around the world has grown by a quarter to over $10 trillion."
• BILLIONAIRE'S CARD - "Billionaire Vodka has the benefit of Billionaires Card Concierge service available globally 24/7 in your preferred language at home or away. Billionaires Card Concierge is always there when you need it from gift ideas to a table for two overlooking the Alhambra at night."
• billionaires 2019 - "Capitalism is taking some lumps—and not just in the headlines. For only the second year in a decade, both the number of billionaires and their total wealth shrank, proving that even the wealthiest are not immune to economic forces and weak stock markets. By our latest count there are 2,153 billionaires, 55 fewer than a year ago. Of those, a record 994, or 46%, are poorer (relatively speaking) than they were last year."
• Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle - "Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions."
• Billionaires Are Actually Less Intelligent Than Lower-Paid People New Study Shows - "New research has shattered the myth that the ultra-wealthy are the smartest people around."
• billionaires aren’t the brainboxes they like to believe - "The obscene wealth of many CEOs is less a result of intelligence and more down to luck, background and personality."
• Billionaires descend on Sun Valley in private jets to talk about climate change - "The private conference was canceled last year because of the pandemic."
• Billionaires Have More Wealth Than 60% of the World's Population, Report Finds - TIME Magazine.
• Billionaires On The Brink: How The Forbes 400 Makes And Loses Billions During Market Crashes - "Meet the billionaire winners and losers of the dot-com bubble, Great Recession and Covid-19 crash."
• Billionaires only, please! London vault for the ultra-rich opens - "Exclusive safety deposit bank near Harrods angles to be world’s most expensive."
• Billionaires report 2018 - "Welcome to the fifth edition of the UBS Billionaires Insights report: New Visionaries and the Chinese Century. Billionaires are at the vanguard of a new industrial revolution which is harnessing the great power of technology to disrupt old industries and create new ones."
• Billionaires seek sanctuary from coronavirus aboard superyachts - "Vessels are being booked for months-long charters in remote locations as the rich luxuriously self-isolate in remote destinations."
• Billionaires Who Died In 2021 - "From a gambling tycoon with a global empire to a member of the storied Rothschild banking family, a total of 27 billionaires passed away this year, leaving behind legacies of entrepreneurship - and billions of dollars. That’s out of a total of 2,755 billionaires Forbes found for our 2021 list of the World’s Billionaires, published in April 2021."
• “Billionaires’ Dirt Road”: This Pastoral Town Is Home To Larry Fink, Georgina Bloomberg, David Letterman, Richard Gere & More - "Bill Gates’ daughter Jenn recently walked the bridal path in the equestrian-friendly town of North Salem, New York. Inside the famously private, ultra-wealthy community."
• Billionaires to the Barricades - The New York Times.
• Billionaires' Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats & Water Cannons - "Amid 'World War III' fears, apocalypse-fearing moguls are investing millions in survival strategies including rotating fireplaces out of 'Indiana Jones' and heightened tactical systems."
• Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader Wen Jiabao - The New York Times.
• Bitcoin and the wealthy - "The very rich are adding fuel to the bitcoin boom but many are wary of a bubble."
• Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor is now one of the world’s 50 richest people - Quartz.
• Bloomberg Billionaires Index - launched in March 2012. "View profiles for each of the world's 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns." The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire's profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.
• Born Rich - (1 hr, 6 min) documentary about being born into wealth.
• Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Swiss mansion - "Prosecutors claimed four members of family underpaid staff and gave them little freedom to leave Geneva mansion."
• bunkers: Meet the man building bunkers for billionaires - "They are thousands of miles from conflict zones, but these home-owners are still prepping for Armageddon."
• bunkers: Why the super rich are building super luxury bunkers - "Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses."
• Business oligarch - Wikipedia.

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• Calling all billionaires: here’s how to keep your superyacht Covid-free - "As the rich and famous isolate on the seas, a new catamaran is designed to keep the virus out."
• Can money buy happiness? - The Guardian.
• Can the super-rich solve America's budget problem? - "The proposal aims to capture more of the wealth created by the soaring stock market of the last few years. Under the proposal, America's 0.01% richest would face a minimum 20% tax on income. Crucially, it changes rules on calculating income to include gains from stocks, even if they were not sold by the investor being taxed."
• Can You Guess What Percentage Of Their Wealth The Rich Keep In Cash? - "According to the U.S. Trust Survey of Affluent Americans, high-net-worth investors with over $3 million in investable assets hold an average of 15% of their portfolios in cash and cash equivalents. This allocation allows for ample liquidity to seize investment opportunities or cover large expenses as they arise."
• Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty & deaths, says Oxfam - "Consumption of world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C."
• CELEBRITY NET WORTH - "CelebrityNetWorth is a website which reports estimates of the total assets and financial activities of celebrities. It is operated by the company Corte Lodato LLC, founded by CEO Brian Warner in 2008. The site has been criticized for a lack of transparency for its calculations, with no way to verify the accuracy what CelebrityNetWorth reports. Most content is written by freelance writers, rather than journalists or computer scientists to analyze data."
• centibillionaire - "A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion United States dollars ($100,000,000,000) or more."
• Charles Koch On Why Cannabis Should Be Legal - "The devout libertarian known for spending a fortune on political causes is now actively funding efforts to end federal marijuana prohibition."
• Charles T. Munger, Much More Than Warren Buffett’s No. 2, Dies at 99 - "A billionaire himself, he was the witty vice chairman of Mr. Buffett’s powerhouse investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. But he had far more influence than his title suggested."
• China Mints Two Billionaires a Week - "The booming world economy has led to a rapid increase in wealth in the past year. The surge in the number of billionaires in China has made it an Eldorado for private banks - a business not without risk though."
• China orders Alibaba founder Jack Ma to break up fintech empire - "Central bank says Ant Group governance is unsound and tells it to rectify ‘illegal activities’."
• China overtakes US in rankings of world's richest people - "Credit Suisse survey shows Brexit effect has reduced number of UK millionaires by 27,000."
• China's super-rich see fortunes plunge as economy slows - "The Hurun Rich list shows the Russia-Ukraine war and Beijing’s zero-Covid measures seriously affecting China’s most wealthy."
• CHINESE BILLIONAIRES OVERTAKE USA FOR FIRST TIME - 2016 Hurun Global Rich List.
• Chinese Luxury Consumer White Paper 2012 - there are 2.7 million high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in China with personal assets of more than 6 million Chinese yuan (equivalent to US$950,000) and 63,500 ultra-high net worth individuals(UHNWIs) with assets of more than 100 million Chinese yuan (US$15.8 million).
• Chris Xu: Who is Shein’s mysterious billionaire founder? - "Very little is known about China’s king of fast fashion who has rapidly become one its richest men."
• Cities With The Most Billionaires 2024 - "Just ten cities are home to nearly a quarter of the world's billionaires. Here's where they choose to live."
• Cities With the Most Centi-Millionaires, mapped - "According to estimates from New World Wealth, there are 29,350 individuals worldwide with fortunes exceeding $100 million. This graphic highlights the top 10 cities ranked by their number of centi-millionaires, based on data compiled by Henley & Partners as of December 2023."
• Clamour for wealth tax grows after revelations about super-rich’s affairs - "Data leak published by ProPublica fuels calls to tighten up system which sees ultra-wealthy pay little or no tax."
• Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds - "The rich are primarily to blame for the global climate crisis, a study by the University of Leeds of 86 countries claims."
• Covid vaccine profits mint 9 new pharma billionaires - "Topping the list of new billionaires are Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of BioNTech (BNTX), which has produced a vaccine with Pfizer (PFE). Both CEOs are now worth around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the People's Vaccine Alliance, a campaign group that includes Oxfam, UNAIDS, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International."
• Cost of Living Index 2018 - Numbeo.
• Could the creator of Bitcoin become the world's first trillionaire? - Mashable.
• 'Crazy Rich Asians' puts spotlight on region's inequalities - "The film Crazy Rich Asians hit the box office this month, and the glossy rom-com has put a spotlight on the region's growing number of super-rich."
• Crazy rich Indian mansions: from Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia to Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat & Gautam Singhania’s JK House - "Take a peek inside 5 of the country’s most OTT luxury homes."

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• Danish billionaire explains his 're-wilding' vision for the Highlands - "The Danish retail billionaire who has become Britain’s biggest private landowner has outlined his hugely ambitious 200-year plans to 're-wild' the 'most vulnerable, precious and mysteriously beautiful landscapes' in the Highlands."
• Death, the Prosperity Gospel & Me - The New York Times.
• Despite Robinhood’s Rocky IPO, Each Cofounder Is Now Worth Billions - "Popular stock trading app Robinhood listed its shares on Thursday in what turned out to be a downbeat IPO. But while shares closed down 8% from the initial offering price of $38 a share, the company’s two founders are now worth billions of dollars each."
• Diabetes Drug Became the New Weight Lost Trend for the Rich - "A pricey weight loss hack is making the rounds in certain social circles. It works, but is it worth it?"
• Did Qatar pay the world's largest ransom? - 'Billion dollar ransom'.
• Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich & the Poor Is Growing - The New York Times.
• Divorces of the rich and famous: a 1% solution or the start of a trend? - "With such high-profile splits at Bill and Melinda Gates and Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos, some say the wealthy play by their own rules but celebrities often set standards the rest of us follow."
• DOG-WHISTLE FASHION - defined as fashion that speaks in such high-pitched, distinctive terms that only a select group of people can understand it. It's rich people fashion. It's celebrity fashion.
• Dollar Princess - the fabulously rich daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century who came to England looking for the one thing they couldn't buy at home: a title.
• Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years - "Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year’s Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people. The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago, when he stood at No. 339 on the ranking, but he is down $600 million since the start of the pandemic. Technology stocks, cryptocurrencies and other assets have thrived in the Covid era. But big-city properties - which make up the bulk of Trump’s fortune - have languished, knocking the former president out of the nation’s most exclusive club."
• Donald Trump overstated net worth by up to $3.6bn, says New York attorney general - "Donald Trump overstated his net worth by as much as $3.6bn between 2011 and 2021, the attorney general of New York state said in a court filing first reported by CNBC on Friday - a $1.4bn increase on a previous filing that put the top amount at $2.2bn."
• Donald Trump’s Great Escape: How The Former President Solved His Debt Crisis - "The 45th president was chained to money-losing real estate and drowning in debt when he left office. Now, magically, he is flush with cash and free to deal - thanks to a little help from powerful friends."
• Dubai throws open the doors for the rich Russians escaping sanctions - "Red carpet for rich Russians: Why oligarchs escaping sanctions are heading for Dubai. Roman Abramovich said to be among those looking for a luxury base in the UAE, which is unafraid to snub the west."
• Dubai’s millionaires are fueling a private jet boom - "More millionaires are forecast to move to the United Arab Emirates in 2024 than to any other country in the world. Experts say the influx is driving a boom in private aviation. With aviation accounting for 3% of global carbon emissions not every nation is embracing private aviation with such fervor. The Netherlands last year declared its intention to ban private jets and small business aviation at its major Schipol airport from 2026."
• Dynasty trust - "The Bezos clan and other ultra-rich American families use 1 specific legal maneuver to pass wealth up to a whopping 40 more generations - here's how they protect their hoard."
• Dynasty trust - trust designed to avoid or minimize estate taxes being applied to great family wealth with each transfer to subsequent generations. By holding assets in the trust and making well-defined distributions to each generation, the entire wealth of the trust is not subject to estate taxes with the passage of each generation.

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• Eat the rich - political slogan associated with class conflict and anti-capitalism. The phrase is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778).
• Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg say they’re ready for cage fight - "Twitter owner and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Musk recently tweeted that he would be 'up for a cage fight' with Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta. In an Instagram story Wednesday, Zuckerberg fired back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet overlaid with the caption: 'Send Me Location.' Musk then responded to a tweet about the fight by Alex Heath, editor of tech news website Verge, with 'Vegas Octagon' - a reference to the Las Vegas arena that hosts the Ultimate Fighting Championship."
• Elon Musk announces he is selling his last home a little more than a year after vowing to 'rid himself of all possessions' - "A little more than a year since his vow last May to sell nearly all of his possessions, and 'own no house,' billionaire CEO Elon Musk appears to be nearing his goal, announcing Monday that he plans to sell his last remaining home."
• Elon Musk asked Tim Cook to make him CEO of Apple, new book claims - "As if Elon Musk isn't running enough companies, he once may have suggested taking over as CEO of America's most valuable business, Apple."
• Elon Musk becomes the first person to reach a net worth of $400 billion - "The richest person in the world just hit an even higher milestone: Elon Musk's net worth has reached $400 billion making him the first person ever to cross that mark. Behind his nearly $20 billion jump in wealth was a deal that shot up Musk's rocket company SpaceX's valuation to roughly $350 billion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday."
• Elon Musk booked a trip to space with Virgin Galactic - "Musk and Branson aren't the bitter rivals you might expect."
• Elon Musk breaks Guinness World Record for largest loss of personal fortune - "Elon Musk can add a new title to his resume: Guinness World Record holder. The 'Technoking' of Tesla made it into the record books thanks to an abysmal 2022 which saw his fortune shrink by $182 billion, the organization announced Friday in a release that cited data from Forbes."
• Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history - "Elon Musk’s wealth destruction has become historic. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX and Twitter is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, good enough for second place on the list of the world’s richest behind LVMH (LVMHF) Chairman Bernard Arnault. But at its peak in November 2021, Musk’s net worth was $340 billion."
• Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution - "It is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?"
• Elon Musk Is Now The Fifth Richest Person In The World - "Elon Musk's meteoric rise up the Forbes Billionaire List has continued this month, as he’s ascended past luminaries such as Warren Buffett and Steve Ballmer. As of Monday afternoon, Musk's net worth surpassed $74 billion, meaning he is now the fifth-richest person on the planet."
• Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, passing Jeff Bezos - "Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion."
• Elon Musk is the richest person ever, Forbes says - "Elon Musk is worth more than twice Warren Buffett & has $100 billion on Jeff Bezos."
• Elon Musk named Time magazine's 2021 Person of the Year - "The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops."
• Elon Musk, Nearing $300 Billion Fortune, Is The Richest Person In History - "Thanks to a blowout earnings report and a big car order by Hertz, Tesla’s market cap surpassed $1 trillion on Monday - and CEO Elon Musk has emerged as the richest person in the history of the world."
• Elon Musk Now Lives in a $50,000 Prefab Tiny House in Texas - "After selling most of his real estate portfolio, the multibillionaire is now living in a 400-square-foot unit on his SpaceX Texas site."
• Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter revenue by 2028 - "If Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter is greenlit by shareholders and regulators in the coming months, the wealthy entrepreneur believes he’ll be able to quintuple the company’s revenue by 2028."
• Elon Musk says he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year - "Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the chief executive of the electric car company Tesla, has said he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year - which could be a record amount of annual tax paid by a single person."
• Elon Musk says he’s homeless & ‘rotates’ among friends’ houses - "Tesla and Space X founder has an estimated net worth of $251bn."
• Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold - "'Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,' Musk tweeted on Friday."
• Elon Musk says his offer to buy Twitter is about 'the future of civilization,' not making money - "Elon Musk defended his offer to purchase Twitter on Thursday, saying during an on-stage interview at the TED conference that he sees the acquisition as nothing less than a turning point for civilization."
• Elon Musk Says the World Has a Bigger Problem than Global Warming - "'Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,' the global CEO tweeted on August 26."
• Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos as he widens his lead as the richest person on Earth - "Elon Musk's personal wealth is now $222 billion, widening his gap as the richest person in the world according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Musk's personal wealth skyrocketed an extra $10.6 billion after a secondary share sale by investors, announced last week, valued SpaceX over $100 billion, CNBC reported."
• Elon Musk used government money to build Tesla. But he fears a tax on billionaires - "Its founder, the most epically rich billionaire Elon Musk, has also been known to avoid paying personal income taxes. Amazon, another massive company, has similarly been known to avoid paying corporate income taxes."
• Elon Musk’s Biggest Tesla Blunders Of The Last Five Years - "Elon Musk was in court in Delaware last week defending his role in Tesla’s acquisition of failing solar panel installer SolarCity in 2016. That questionable decision -SolarCity was founded by his cousins; Musk was its biggest shareholder and served on the board of both companies - triggered a shareholder lawsuit."
• Elon Musk's drug use worries Tesla, SpaceX leaders - "Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties, the Journal said, citing unnamed witnesses and others with knowledge of the matter. People close to the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive officer told the newspaper his drug use is ongoing, and that in particular he’s consuming ketamine."
• Elon Musk's six secrets to business success - "Elon Musk has just become the richest person in the world, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
• Elon Musk's US tax bill: $11 billion. Tesla's: $0 - "Elon Musk has repeatedly bragged (or, perhaps, complained) that he'll pay more in federal taxes for 2021 than anyone has ever paid - about $11 billion. But Tesla apparently won't pay a cent. Tesla may not plan to pay federal taxes any time in the foreseeable future - even though the company just reported by far its most profitable year ever. In 2021, Tesla recorded net income of $5.5 billion, and adjusted income of $7.6 billion."
• Europe’s Billionaires Are $1 Trillion Richer Than A Year Ago - "Bernard Arnault remains Europe’s richest person. Germany leads Europe once again with the largest number of billionaires on Forbes’ 2021 list of the world’s richest. French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault keeps his spot as the No. 3 richest in the world, though his $150 billion fortune is nearly double the $76 billion it was a year ago, as a result of a run-up in the value of LVMH shares. Spanish fast-fashion tycoon Amancio Ortega is Europe’s second richest, worth $77 billion. While that is $20 billion more than a year ago, he dropped in rank to No. 11 richest in the world this year, down from No. 6 last year, as others - mostly U.S. billionaires - outpaced his gains."
• Evelyn de Rothschild, Scion of Banking Dynasty, Dies at 91 - "Initially showing little promise, he eventually joined the family firm and rose to chairman, wielding vast influence in Britain’s financial and political affairs."

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• Fabulous Life Of Filthy Rich Billionaires - documentary. YouTube: 41 min.
• Family fortunes of wealthy increase as super-rich ride coronavirus storm - "UBS says portfolios of 77% of richest investors are performing in line with or above target."
• Family Office Elite Magazine - "Well designed and visually stunning magazine and is the premier gateway to an exclusive and ultra-wealthy Family Office audience across all disciplines of the Global Family Office Community."
• Fastest Growing Millionaire Populations, by Country (2013-2023) - "The world’s economic powerhouses, like the U.S. or China, hold the majority of millionaires in absolute terms. But which countries are growing their millionaire populations at the fastest rate?"
• feeding the super rich - "Money is no object when it comes to feeding the super rich. London ... This exclusive series follows the renowned food-finders who cater for the nouveau riche."
• Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn - The Guardian.
• Financial infidelity? ‘I bought a villa, my husband didn’t know’ - "You may not tell your partner about new shoes, but the rich hide whole houses."
• FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves.
• Fine Dining & the Ethics of Noma’s Meticulously Crafted Fruit Beetle - "Recent reports have spurred a backlash against the 1 percent of restaurants. What is the human cost of this type of eating, and will it last?"
• For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions - The New York Times.
• Forbes 400 2020: These Billionaires Have Gotten The Richest Over The Past Year - "Despite the pandemic, America’s richest people are thriving. The members of this year’s Forbes 400 list, released today, are worth 8% more on average compared to a year ago. A select group of these billionaires have been even more fortunate: The 15 biggest gainers this year saw their already-massive net worths skyrocket by at least 40%. Forbes used closing stock prices from Friday July 24 to calculate the size of the fortunes on the list, our 39th annual ranking of the country’s richest people."
• Forbes 400 2021 - "The Definitive Ranking Of America’s Richest People." A record net worth of $2.9 billion is required to make the cut, $800 million more than a year ago, as the fortunes of the nation’s wealthiest rise a collective 40% over the last year.
• Forbes 400 2022 - "The Definitive Ranking of The Wealthiest Americans In 2022." The wealthiest people in the U.S. are poorer than a year ago—and the cutoff to make the list fell for the first time since the Great Recession.
• Forbes world's Billionaires list 2021 - "The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755 - 660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list - roughly one every 17 hours, including 210 from China and Hong Kong. Another 250 who’d fallen off in the past came roaring back. A staggering 86% are richer than a year ago. Altogether these billionaires are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020. The U.S. still has the most, with 724, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macao) with 698."
• Forget the mega yacht - tomorrow's billionaires can buy a portable ISLAND - Daily Mail.
• Four-Pack - "City Hopping Among the Wealthiest."
• FranÇoise Bettencourt Meyer: L'OrÉal heiress first woman to amass $100bn fortune - "The French beauty empire founded by her grandfather is on track for its best stock market performance in decades. L'Oréal shares rose to a record high in Paris on Thursday."
• From Junk Bond King To SPAC Whale: How Michael Milken Became A Big Investor In The SPAC Boom - "The big money fueling SPAC mania comes from smart hedge funds - dubbed the SPAC mafia - capitalizing on a 'no lose' trade. No surprise that a fund backed by brilliant billionaire financier Michael Milken owns nearly 125 SPACs."
• Fuck You Money - definition & explanation.
• Fuerdai - 'rich second generation'; is a Chinese term for the children of the nouveau riche in China. This term, generally considered pejorative, is often invoked in the Chinese media and everyday discussions in mainland China as it incorporates some of the social and moral problems associated with modern Chinese society.

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• GATES NOTES - since 2010. "The Blog of Bill Gates."
• Generation wealth: how the modern world fell in love with money - The Guardian.
• George Clooney highest paid actor ever - BBC.
• Geriatric millionaires: why boomers keep getting wealthier - "The older generation now accounts for half the combined net worth of the US - and in the UK they hold 78% of the UK’s private housing wealth."
• Gini coefficient - measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measure of inequality.
• Global super-rich has at least US$21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens - The Guardian.
• global super-rich in London is booming - "Boris Johnson has led cheerleading for the global super-wealthy as they buy up the capital’s best housing, says damning report."
• Global Wealth 2014: Riding a Wave of Growth - Boston Consulting Group.
• Global Wealth Report 2013 - Credit Suisse.
• Global Wealth Report 2014 - Credit Suisse Research.
• Global wealth report 2021 - "The twelfth edition of the Global Wealth Report, published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, shows continued wealth growth. Total global wealth grew by 7.4% and wealth per adult reached another record high of USD 79,952. Overall, the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have not fared worse in terms of wealth creation. The most comprehensive and up-to-date resource of its kind. Our Global wealth report analyzes the household wealth of 5.2 billion people across the globe. Multi-faceted and eye-opening."
• Global Wealth Report 2023 - "Global wealth is expected to rise by 38% over the next five years, reaching USD 629 trillion by 2027. How has global household wealth developed in 2022? What are the projections for the years ahead? Find out with the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on global household wealth."
• Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners - "In an era of surging home and stock values, U.S. family wealth has soared. The trillions of dollars going to heirs will largely reinforce inequality."

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• Hans Rausing obituary - "Businessman behind the Swedish Tetra Pak empire who was one of the world’s wealthiest people."
• Happiness: We’ve been wrong about a key contributor to human happiness - "Money can’t buy happiness, of course. Of course. But it can really, really help. Here’s the deal: For years, there’s been a popular theory in behavioral science research that people hit a kind of 'happiness plateau' around the $75,000 a year threshold (or around $100,000 adjusted for inflation), and above that level, more money isn’t going to make you significantly happier. But according to new research from Matt Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, there is an 'ever-increasing association between more money and higher happiness.'"
• Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates & Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act? - "Growing tensions between the two billionaires, over issues both substantive and stylistic, have roiled the world of philanthropy."
• Her super rich clients trust her with millions of dollars - "The people making million-dollar art deals for the super rich."
• Here’s How Rich Jeff Bezos Got As Amazon’s CEO - "July 5 was Jeff Bezos’ last day as Amazon CEO, ending a remarkable 27-year run that saw the e-commerce giant become one of the most valuable public companies in the world, with a market capitalization of $1.8 trillion. In the process, his fortune has increased by 12,425% - up by $196 billion since 1998, when he first appeared on The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans with a net worth of $1.6 billion. Now, he’s worth nearly $202 billion, making him the richest person on Earth."
• Here’s what Steve Jobs might have been worth with Apple valued at $3 trillion - "Apple on Monday became the first company to hit a market capitalization of $3 trillion - more than nine times what the company was worth when founder Steve Jobs died in 2011. Unlike other legendary tech moguls like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Jobs actually owned very little of Apple at the time of his death."
• HermÈs billionaire wants to bequeath fortune to his former gardener - "A descendant of Europe’s richest family has reportedly begun a process to adopt his middle-aged former gardener, planning to leave him at least half of his roughly €12 billion ($13 billion) fortune."
• Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed - "Leaked documents seen by BBC News show how a sanctioned oligarch from Putin's 'inner circle' hid his wealth. They reveal how a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as owner of a company that transferred over $300m to firms linked to Suleiman Kerimov."
• HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUAL | HNWI - definition & explanation.
• Highest-Paid CEOs 2024 - "CEO pay continues to outpace the pay of working people across the country. In the past 10 years, typical CEO pay at S&P 500 companies increased by more than $4 million, to an average of $17.7 million in 2023. Meanwhile, the average U.S. worker saw a wage increase of $18,240 over the past decade, earning on average just $65,470 in 2023. Included in the survey are the CEOs of TPG Inc. (over $198 million), Carlyle Group Inc. (over $186 million), Broadcom Inc. (over $161 million), Palo Alto Networks Inc. (over $151 million), and Coty Inc. (over $149 million)."
• HOMES OF THE RICH - "The Web's #1 Luxury Real Estate Blog."
• Hong Kong now has more super-rich people than any other city - "New York is no longer the city with the biggest super-rich population."
• Hong Kong's richest man opens $380M Buddhist museum - "ong Kong's richest man is opening a multi-million-dollar Buddhist art museum at a monastery in the territory."
• How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune - The New York Times.
• How a mysterious Putin ally, the ‘Russian Gatsby,’ moves his billions - "A trove of leaked financial records illustrates the difficulties regulators will face in enforcing sanctions on Russian oligarchs like Suleiman Kerimov."
• How Amazon became the world’s most valuable public company - "Amazon closed out the Monday trading day as the world's most valuable public company, surpassing Microsoft. Amazon reached a $1 trillion market cap in September but is now worth less than $800 billion."
• How America became a 1% society - The Guardian.
• How America's rich have turned pandemic into profit - "As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth."
• How America’s Richest People Can Access Billions Without Selling Their Stock - "Many of the country’s richest people, including Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, borrow against their stock while avoiding capital gains taxes."
• How An Unknown Tax Dodge Is Creating Buyout Billionaires By The Dozen - Forbes.
• how Angolan ruler's daughter used her status to build $2bn empire - "Leaks show how Isabel dos Santos became Africa’s richest woman at expense of Angolan state."
• How Bernard Arnault Stitched Together The World’s Third Biggest Fortune With Louis Vuitton, Dior And 77 Other Brands - And Why He’s Not Done Yet - "The $100 Billion Man." Forbes.
• How Big Do You Want Your Nest Egg to Be? - The New York Times.
• How billionaires are preparing for the apocalypse - "Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse."
• how billionaires are using celebrities as PR for their space projects - "Critics see the ‘awful business’ of private space tourism as having little technological or exploration value."
• How Billionaires Got So Rich In 2021 - "The vast majority of the billionaires on this year’s Forbes list hail from these 10 sectors."
• How Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk & George Soros Pay Less Income Tax Than You - "And How You Can Replicate The Strategy. It's Legal. Most billionaires don’t get to where they are by earning a salary. And that also means they might pay less income tax than Americans who make a living through wages. According to a report from ProPublica, some billionaires in the U.S. paid little or no income tax relative to the vast amount of wealth they have accumulated over the years."
• How billionaires pay less tax than you - "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires employ special strategies to avoid paying income tax, say experts. The 'Buy Borrow Die' mantra is a common practice among many of the ultra-wealthy."
• How China's wealth gap policy may change the world - "Changing China: How Xi's 'common prosperity' may impact the world. China says its policies aimed at narrowing the widening wealth gap are precisely what it needs in this moment of its economic trajectory - but critics say it comes with even greater control of how business and society will be governed."
• How crazy rich are Asia's wealthiest families? - "The success of the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" is drawing attention to the region's growing wealth."
• How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter - The New York Times.
• How do the rich & famous protect their homes? - BBC News.
• How Elon Musk Built His Fortune & Became the Richest Private Citizen in the World - When eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002, Musk netted a $180 million mega-fortune from the deal. Musk didn't end up relaxing with all the things his new millions could buy. In 2002, he founded SpaceX with the almost ludicrous mission of colonizing Mars.
• How Elon Musk sold 10 million Tesla shares & increased his Tesla holdings - "Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold a massive stake in his company over the past several weeks. And yet he owns 564,000 more shares than he did at the start of the selling spree. An analysis of his filings shows Musk is not backing away from his holdings in Tesla, despite his promise to follow a poll he sent to his Twitter followers, who called on him to sell 10% of his stake. So far he's sold 10.1 million shares - about 7 million shares short of the goal. That's because at the same time he is selling shares, he's also exercising options to buy additional stock. And he's doing so at a bargain exercise price of $6.24 a share, well below 1% of Tesla (TSLA)'s current share price."
• How I made my first million - by those who have done it - "Twelve of the Rich List’s 40 under 40 offer tips and tricks to start your own business."
• How Jack Ma built China's money supermarket into a $200 billion company - "When Jack Ma launched an obscure payment service to boost his online shopping empire 16 years ago, few expected it to succeed. Now that service forms the backbone of Ant Group, a financial behemoth that could be worth more than $200 billion."
• How Jeff Bezos took Amazon to the top - BBC Business.
• How Jeff Bezos’ obsessions built Amazon - "Jeff Bezos is set to beat fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson into space when he shoots off next month aboard one of his own Blue Origin rockets, the latest example of his trademark single-minded nature and competitiveness."
• How London’s booming ‘butler class’ takes care of the wealthy elite - "The capital is home to 1,000 ‘family offices’, made up of lawyers and financiers who service every need of the super-rich."
• How Losing Money Can Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease - Even If You're Young - "'We assumed that income drops or frequent changes in income were probably not good for health... But we were surprised by the magnitude of the effect,' says researcher Tali Elfassy."
• How Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for the Ultrarich in N.Y. - "About one-fourth of the 88 floors at 432 Park Avenue, one of the world’s tallest residential buildings, have no homes. Instead, they are reserved for structural and mechanical equipment."
• How Many Ultra High Net Worth Individuals Are There in the World? - "In order for someone to be considered an 'ultra-high-net-worth individual,' they typically need to have at least $30 million worth of net investable assets to their name. However, this isn't really a legal definition."
• How Much Do You Need To Join The Richest 1%? - It May Be Less Than You Realize - "According to the latest findings from the 18th edition of the Wealth Report by Douglas Elliman and Knight Frank, a person needs $5.8 million to be considered in the wealthiest 1% - a figure that, while substantial, is a far cry from the billionaire benchmark."
• how much money billionaires & celebrities make per hour - "We did the math to calculate exactly how much money billionaires and celebrities like Jeff Bezos and Kylie Jenner make per hour."
• How Much Money Do You Need To Be Wealthy? - Fidelity Investments survey.
• How Much Money Is Enough? - The New York Times.
• How Much Money Is Enough? Not As Much As Americans Might Think, Study Says - "'The results suggest that sustainable goals of limiting wealth and growth "may actually be more consistent with human ideals and aspirations than (is) commonly believed.' This study was published at the same time as simultaneous research by an independent organisation that studies inequality in French society, L’Observatoire des Inégalités. That study determined that to be considered rich, a person must have a revenue of €3,673 per month ($3,903)."
• How Much People in the Trump Administration Are Worth - The New York Times.
• How much should bosses be paid? - "The boss of privately-owned online gambling firm Bet365 Denise Coates has received a £320m payday, confirming her position as the UK's best paid executive. She was paid a £277m salary plus dividends, reigniting the debate about how much bosses should earn."
• How much money you need to be part of the 1 percent worldwide - "According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, you need a net worth of $871,320 U.S. Credit Suisse defines net worth, or 'wealth,' as 'the value of financial assets plus real assets (principally housing) owned by households, minus their debts.'"
• How New Zealand became an apocalypse escape destination for Americans - "In Queenstown - a picturesque ski spot that often attracts comparisons to Aspen, Colorado - rumors about foreigners investing in apocalypse-proof bunkers have been swirling for years."
• How People Change Their Love Lives According to Money - TIME Magazine.
• How philanthropy benefits the super-rich - "There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?"
• How Rage Giving Became Philanthropy’s New Normal - "A perfect storm of polarized politics, horrific headlines, and social media has transformed our giving habits."
• HOW RICH ARE YOU? - "Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here's your chance to find out."
• How Rich Is King Charles III? Inside The New Monarch’s Outrageous Fortune - "As the new head of The Firm, Charles now oversees some $42 billion in assets and inherited $500 million from Queen Elizabeth, including her castles, jewels, art collection and a horse farm - all of it tax-free."
• How robots will make the rich even richer - The Guardian.
• how tech billionaires are trying to reverse the ageing process - "Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel are pouring huge sums into startups aiming to keep us all young - or even cheat death. And the science isn’t as far-fetched as you might think."
• How the 1% are coping. Lifestyles of the rich & famous - "While the rest of us face the pandemic, the wealthy are donning face masks, boarding private jets and heading for the hills."
• How the 1% Runs an Ironman - "Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable - for executives who can afford to pay."
• How the Former Billionaire Known as 'Catwoman' Went Bankrupt With $0 in Her Bank Account - TIME Magazine.
• How The Gates’ Split Could Stack Up Against The Biggest Billionaire Divorces - "It’s not clear how Bill and Melinda Gates will split their fortune, but here’s what’s happened with some of the other billionaire couples who split."
• how the other half lives - Jacob Riis.
• How The Rich & Famous Escape The Pandemic - "For most regular people, the pandemic has meant staring at the same four walls for months on end, dreaming of when we used to be allowed to travel. However, there are much more pleasant ways to while away the time during the coronavirus crisis for those with unlimited resources."
• How The Rich Partied During Coronavirus Lockdown - "Over the past three to four months, the wealthy have spent millions building their own secret clubs and live music venues, and then flying in musicians and performers for their own version of live entertainment."
• how the super-rich customise their homes in 2018 - The Telegraph.
• How the super rich ship their luxury cars around the world - "Forget rental cars, the 1% cart their vehicles around the world with them. This is how."
• How the super-rich spent lockdown - "From castles and private islands to luxury underground bunkers with pools and home cinemas, we take a look at how the super-rich have spent lockdown."
• How the super-rich store their supercars - "Underfloor heating, custom lighting, $385,000 TVs. For the super-rich car enthusiast, the humble garage - traditionally a utilitarian lock-up and object of the suburban dream that was cut off from the rest of the home - has become prized real estate, where drivers can not only keep their cars but commune with them alongside like-minded friends."
• How the very rich are different in the Covid-19 fight - "While the wealthy may not be immune, their affluence makes it easier for them to insulate themselves."
• how the wealthy tell us what ‘real folk’ want - "Rightwing populists weaponise culture as a way to protect privilege."
• how the world’s rich & famous hide their money offshore - The Guardian.
• How This Billionaire-Backed Crypto Startup Gets Paid To Not Mine Bitcoin - "It’s everyone’s dream to get paid to do nothing. Bitcoin miner Layer1 is turning that dream into reality - having figured out how to make money even when its machines are turned off."
• How to Date a Lot of Billionaires - "Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo sought fame on social media by flaunting what nature - and men - gave them. Then they got locked up abroad."
• How to Get Rich in Trump’s Washington - The New York Times.
• How to Hide $400 Million - The New York Times.
• How To Hide A Billion Dollars: Three Techniques The Ultrarich Use To Dodge Ex-Spouses, The Taxman & Disgruntled Business Partners - "At 81, high-frequency trading pioneer Ed Bosarge is in court battling ex-business partners, the founder of a stem cell clinic of which he took control and the wife he dumped. She says he’s got billions stashed in a constantly changing array of offshore and South Dakota trusts."
• How to hide it: inside secret world of wealth managers - The Guardian.
• How to live like a billionaire in Monaco - Tatler UK | YouTube 4:12.
• How to live like a billionaire on the cheap - The Guardian.
• How to Live Like a Bitcoin Millionaire - ValueWalk.
• How to look 'filthy rich' on the web - "How 'filthy rich' alter egos can protect your privacy. If you have ever wondered what the internet looks like if you are filthy rich, now is your chance to find out."
• How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% - "In an age of astonishing wealth, nothing reveals the lives of the ultra-rich like the FT’s unashamedly ostentatious luxury magazine."
• How to tax Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos - "The Billionaires' Tax Plan being floated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden is an excellent first step in getting the wealthiest Americans to pay something, after a century of nothingness."
• how wealth breeds narcissism - The age of entitlement & the asshole effect.
• How Wealthy People Protect Their Money - The Atlantic.
• Huda Kattan: The face that launched a billion-dollar beauty empire - CNN.
• ‘Hurry Up and Get a Divorce’? For the Rich, There’s an Incentive - The New York Times.

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• I Am Rich - iOS application which was formerly distributed using the App Store, and developed by Armin Heinrich. When launched, the screen only contains a glowing red gem and an icon that, when pressed, displays the following mantra in large text: 'I am rich I deserv it I am good, healthy & successful'. The application is described as "a work of art with no hidden function at all", with its only purpose being to show other people that they were able to afford it, making it a Veblen good. I Am Rich was sold on the App Store for US$999.99, €799.99, and £599.99, the highest price Apple allows for App Store content. The application was removed from the App Store by Apple Inc. without explanation the day following its release, on August 6, 2008.
• I'm part of the 1%. We need to acknowledge that the deck has been stacked in our favor - "I expected the wealthy would do well under Donald Trump, but not as grotesquely well as those of us in the top 1% have done. From the day Trump won in 2016 to the day he lost in 2020, the stock markets were up at least $12.7 trillion, which means that the top 1% of the 128.5 million US households -- the 1.28 million that own 51% of the stock market -- could each have gotten richer by an average of around $5 million."
• I’m Rich, and That Makes Me Anxious - The New York Times.
• I Want to Be Rich & I’m Not Sorry - The New York Times.
• Ikea billionaire Ingvar Kamprad buys second-hand clothes to save money - The Guardian.
• In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat - The New York Times.
• In messy UK divorce case, who will sail away with the £250m superyacht? - "Seizing control of the yacht would go a long way towards satisfying a London court’s £450m divorce award in Tatiana Akhmedova’s favour."
• In the ‘Succession’ era, wardrobes of the wealthy are subtler than ever - "The rich identify each other with luxury that only a highly trained eye can detect."
• Incredible Yachts of the Rich & Famous - "If there’s one expensive toy the rich and famous strive to save up for, it’s undoubtedly a yacht. These luxury cities-on-the-sea can cost upwards of tens of millions of dollars - with some superyachts even escalating into the hundreds of millions."
• India's billionaires got richer while coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into poverty - "Mukesh Ambani — chairman of the sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries - is now worth more than $80 billion, some $15 billion more than a year ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Not far behind him is Adani Group founder Gautam Adani, whose wealth skyrocketed from less than $13 billion this time last year to $55 billion today."
• Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani weds at lavish, star-studded ceremony - "After seven months of extravagant pre-wedding celebrations, Anant Ambani, the son of India’s richest man, completed his long-awaited marriage to pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant before thousands of guests on Friday."
• Inside $10 Million Luxury Underground Bunkers - "Inside Oppidum’s Luxury Underground Residences Where The Ultra-Wealthy Plan On Living Out The End Of The World."
• Inside Bill Gates’ naked pool parties, affairs & friendship with Jeffrey Epstein - "Bill Gates seemed like the ultimate computer geek - but a very different picture of the Microsoft founder has emerged since announcing his divorce."
• Inside Putin's Secret $1 Billion Mansion - "An inside look at Vladimir Putin's secretive $1 billion dollar palace." YouTube 6:34.
• Inside the Luxembourg free port storing riches for the super-wealthy - "Depending on who you speak to, Le Freeport is a high-security storage facility or a money-laundering risk."
• Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir - "History's riches: Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir."
• Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus - "The Kansas-based Survival Condo is built to withstand a nuclear attack - but a virus, they believe, can be kept outside too. A pandemic, like any other crisis, has a way of exposing the chasm between the haves and have-nots, and perhaps the deepest trench right now is the one between the one percenters self-quarantining in dramatic and expensive fashion—and the rest of humanity. While most of us scroll social media and stay glued to cable news, Peter Thiel has a New Zealand hideaway and Jeff Bezos reportedly rules over 300,000 acres in West Texas. We’ve all probably heard about them, but did we ever really think we’d see them put to use?"
• Insights into the World’s Top 10 Wealthiest Cities & Rising Wealth Hubs - "In the dynamic global economic landscape, certain cities persistently stand as beacons of prosperity, commanding attention for their unparalleled wealth and influence, and drawing affluent investors to reside within their limits."
• International scheme to tax billionaires' wealth technically feasible, study finds - "An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world's 3,000 billionaires is technically feasible and could net up to $250bn a year in extra revenue, a new report says."
• Isabel dos Santos: Africa's richest woman 'ripped off Angola' - "Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption."
• It's My Privilege: Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich - "A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors."
• It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare - "Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna write about how the wealthy profit off of the middle class."
• It’s trickier than you think being super-rich - "What to wear to a megarich wedding. What to buy the happy couple who already have everything. How to act on a private jet. Shruti Advani on the do’s and don’ts of the one percent - and how to behave among them. Forbes estimates the billionaire population is at its highest and growing. According to the 2024 Billionaire Census by Altrata - the company that specialises in data on the wealthy - there are now 3,323 of them (431 of whom are women)."
• Ivan Boesky, Wall Street financier who coined ‘greed is good’, dies aged 87 - "Known as ‘Ivan The Terrible’, the risk arbitrage maven fell from glory in one of the biggest insider trading scandals of the 1980s."
• Ivana Trump Left Behind $34 Million. Here’s What Is In Her Will - "A Manhattan townhouse, a Miami Beach condo, some French property and her dog Tiger Trump are among the items to be split between Ivana Trump’s kids, a former nanny and a mysterious friend."

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• Jack Ma, China’s Richest Man, Belongs to the Communist Party. Of Course - "Jack Ma, China’s richest man and the guiding force behind its biggest e-commerce company, belongs to an elite club of power brokers, 89 million strong: the Chinese Communist Party."
• 'Jack Ma is tamed': How Beijing showed tech entrepreneur who is boss - "Analysts say Ma’s criticism of authorities likely reason for Ant Group’s IPO being halted."
• Jack Ma's terrible week - "This week should have made Jack Ma China’s richest man again, and the stock market debut of his company Ant Financial should have been the largest ever."
• Jacob Rothschild, financier & member of the banking family, dies at 87 - "City grandee and hereditary peer co-founded a number of companies and was also involved in the arts."
• Jahrbuch der MillionÄre - das Jahrbuch des Vermögens und Einkommens der Millionäre war eine Zeitschrift, die in den Jahren von 1912 bis teilweise 1914 unter verschiedenen Titel-Ergänzungen in Berlin.
• Jeff Bezos & Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says - "In a move that pours cold water on the dreams of a few billionaire space explorers, the US has tightened its definition of the word 'astronaut'."
• Jeff Bezos & the secretive world of superyachts - "News that Jeff Bezos has bought a 'superyacht' has revived interest in the secretive world of the uber-rich globetrotters who enjoy these ultimate status symbols. Experts say the superyacht industry has been booming for years, even during the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic."
• Jeff Bezos Is Building a 10,000-Year Clock Inside a Mountain - "The 'Clock of the Long Now,' which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far.".
• Jeff Bezos is flying to space. Here's everything you need to know - "Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, is preparing for a rocket-powered, 11-minute 2,300-mph excursion to the edge of space, capping off a month filled with rocket news and a bit of drama among the world's richest people who are dedicating large portions of their wealth to rocket development."
• Jeff Bezos is giving away his $124billion fortune - "The Amazon founder plans to donate the majority of his net worth to charities fighting climate change, as well as supporting people who can help to heal political and social divisions, during his lifetime."
• Jeff Bezos is going to space for 11 minutes. Here's how risky that is - "Jeff Bezos can have anything. He could circle the globe in a private jet or sail it forever in a fleet of megayachts. He could afford to buy a the whole NFL; he could buy an archipelago for his family and friends; he could buy over 65,000 Bugatti Chirons (base price $2.9 million), even though only 500 are being built. As the world's richest person, the possibilities are endless. But Bezos appears ready to risk it all for an 11-minute ride to space."
• Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket - "Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon."
• Jeff Bezos is now worth a whopping $200 billion - "Jeff Bezos was already the world's richest man. Now his net worth has skyrocketed once again, setting another new record. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO's wealth reached an estimated $202 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index, as the company's shares soared. That's up about $87 billion since January."
• Jeff Bezos is the richest person in history - CNN.
• Jeff Bezos Just Added a Record $13 Billion to His Fortune in a Single Day - "Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, the largest single-day jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was created in 2012."
• Jeff Bezos Surpasses Gates as World's Richest Person - Bloomberg.
• Jeff Bezos swung by space and has some thoughts - "Breaking news: A billionaire says the planet is beautiful."
• Jeffrey Epstein 'threatened to expose Bill Gates' 2010 affair with a Russian bridge player - after he refused to participate in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund with JPMorgan.
• Jekyll Island Club - (1886-1942). Private club located on Jekyll Island, on the Georgia coastline. It was known as the resort of the "100 MILLIONAIRES" who, it was said, together CONTROLLED A SIXTH OF THE WORLD'S WEALTH.
• Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality - "Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes."

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• Kanye West Is Not The Richest Black Person In America— - nd Here’s Why - "Reports that the celebrity is worth nearly $7 billion are based on the magical thinking around sales that don’t yet exist. This is why he’s currently worth less than one third of that."
• Kim Kardashian West Is Officially A Billionaire - "With KKW Beauty and popular shapewear firm Skims, Kardashian West’s net worth increases to $1 billion, earning her a spot on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List."
• King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire - "The new British monarch lords over seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 cottages, and 14 ancient ruins where he can hang up his crown."
• Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever - Forbes.
• Kylie Jenner to be 'youngest self-made US billionaire' - BBC News.

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• Larry Fink is ‘richer’ than Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mukesh Ambani, can buy half of US, many countries - " Larry Fink is the CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, which oversees assets worth USD 7.4 trillion. Larry manages the largest poll of public money."
• latest must-have among US billionaires? A plan to end the climate crisis - "The latest must-have for America’s ultra-rich isn’t another mega yacht or space program - it’s a plan to save the world from the climate crisis. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have an estimated wealth of $466bn - and are emblematic of a Davos-centric worldview that sees free markets and tech as the answer."
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• Le Freeport - "A high-end, ultra safe facility for the storage of valuable goods." LE FREEPORT sets new standards, demanded by investors and collectors alike: a purpose built facility combining cutting edge technology, efficient logistics, and an exhaustive range of expert services. LE FREEPORT is the ideal platform for securing, servicing and selling works of art and other valuables. Luxembourg & Singapore.
• ‘Lead by doing’: Bill Gates’ message to global leaders - "US President Joe Biden has had the top job for less than a week but billionaire Bill Gates has wasted no time in getting straight to business about raising the alarm on climate change."
• Lego Billionaire Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen Builds New ‘Campus’ - With Bricks - "Lego has announced the opening of a new campus in Billund, Denmark, inspired by a painting of the toymaker’s famous plastic blocks in billionaire owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s office."
• Let's stop pretending billionaires are in the same boat as us during this pandemic - "While millions of Americans were being thrown out of work by the coronavirus, the super rich saw their wealth increase 10%."
• Life as an oligarch’s tutor: Bentleys, paranoia & naked saunas - "Vladimir Putin is reportedly advertising for a tutor for his two young sons. Matt Knott, who spent several years working the Russian super-rich, says there can be eye-popping perks."
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - American television series that aired in syndication from 1984 to 1995. The show featured the extravagant lifestyles of wealthy entertainers, athletes and business moguls.
• Lily Safra, Star-Crossed Socialite & Philanthropist, Dies at 87 - "Lily Safra, a Brazilian-born socialite and philanthropist who led a star-filled, star-crossed life with enough jet-setting ups and tragedy-filled downs to fill a dozen Danielle Steel novels, including the bizarre death of her fourth husband, the banker Edmond J. Safra, died on July 9 at her home in Geneva. She was 87."
• 'lipstick index' says people buy more makeup when times get tough - "Here's where it comes from - and whether it can really predict a recession. The lipstick index is the theory that sales of 'affordable luxuries' rise during economic downturns. The phrase was coined in the early 2000s by Leonard Lauder, heir to Estée Lauder cosmetics. It played out during the 2008 recession and the pandemic, and it seems to be happening now too."
• List of American heiresses - list of some American socialites, from the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European nobility, peerage and royalty.
• List of centibillionaires - "A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion United States dollars ($100,000,000,000) or more. The following is a list of everyone who has ever been a centibillionaire."
• London At Risk Of Becoming A ‘Ghetto Of Wealth’ - "London has been labelled an 'epicentre of the elites' and a 'ghetto of wealth' as social mobility in the U.K. capital plummets to new lows."
• London has more dollar millionaires than New York - "One in 10 Londoners hold assets worth more than £720,000 as Covid crisis makes the rich richer."
• Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes - "Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can’t tap that wealth because you forgot the password to your digital wallet?"
• Luanda Leaks Documents - "We’ve published emails, contracts, organizational charts, meeting videos, loan agreements and more from our investigation into Isabel dos Santos."

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• MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6 Billion Last Year. It's Not As Easy As It Sounds - TIME Magazine.
• Mad diets of tech billionaires - Zuckerberg's cold goat meat & Bezos' roast iguana - "You are what you eat - so how did someone who used to eat entire packs of biscuits and octopuses for breakfast become the world's richest man?"
• Maltese passports: why the uber-rich are desperate to have one - "A passport from this country is 'the latest status symbol'. And the world’s wealthiest people are lining up for one."
• Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived - "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history."
• Mapping the Migration of the World's Millionaires - "This graphic maps out the migration of millionaires across the globe, showing the top 10 countries the ultra-rich are moving to and from."
• Marc Andreessen’s plan to win the future - The New Yorker.
• Mark Zuckerberg is building one of the biggest homes in US history - "$270M Hawaiian compound will include its own village and huge underground bunker."
• Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money' - "Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth richest person in the world with many billions of dollars to his name, said he 'understands' where Bernie Sanders is coming from when the Democratic presidential candidate says billionaires shouldn't exist."
• McDonald's french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland - "Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the nation’s largest farmland owner as part of his broader strategy to save the climate."
• measuring worth - Relative Worth Calculators & Data Sets.
• Meet the man building bunkers for billionaires - "They are thousands of miles from conflict zones, but these home-owners are still prepping for Armageddon."
• Meet The Members Of The Three-Comma Club - Forbes.
• Meet The Secretive Billionaire Who Makes McDonald’s McNuggets, Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers And More - "New Forbes 400 member Sheldon Lavin owns OSI Group, the behind-the-scenes food supplier that makes McDonald’s hamburgers, Chipotle’s carnitas, Oscar Meyer’s hot dogs and even Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers."
• Meet the world's youngest billionaire from Norway - The Telegraph.
• Mega rich buy $11M homes on world's biggest superyacht - "World's first 'yacht liner' unveiled."
• mega-rich Cotswolds set want the new posh postcode - "Grog table, boot room, dog beds: how to get the upscale Cotswolds look. Would Simon Mills’s modest home get the seal of approval from Katy and Milo Campbell - her clientele must provide proof that they have at least £1 million to spend - house-hunters to the one-percent? CV36 is ‘north Cotswolds’,” Katy says, explaining the code’s appeal - its proximity to Birmingham airport (convenient for flights to one’s third property in France or Italy), the fast train service to London from Banbury."
• Melinda Gates could be angling to change kids’ $10M inheritance in split - "Bill Gates has said his kids will get a 'minuscule' portion of his vast wealth."
• Melinda Gates has been consulting divorce lawyers since October 2019 - "Melinda Gates began consulting divorce lawyers in October 2019, according to a report - around the same time as her husband's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was being called into question."
• Melinda Gates' lawyer reveals what he advises billionaires & celebrities not to do when settling a divorce - "Melinda Gates' divorce lawyer told Insider the spouses of very wealthy people sometimes settle for much less than they deserve."
• Meritocracy is a myth invented by the rich - "The elite college admissions scandal in the US is a reminder that wealth, not talent, is what determines the opportunities you have in life."
• Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’ - "Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charity."
• Mike Lynch, British tycoon among the missing after deadly tornado sinks luxury yacht - "Why did the yacht Bayesian sink? How the tragedy unfolded. Mike Lynch, the 59-year-old multimillionaire entrepreneur, his teenage daughter and four others are missing and presumed dead after a freak storm. A waterspout, a rare form of tornado that forms over water, toppled the aluminium mast, one of the world's tallest at 248ft. It caused the boat to keel over and take on water before sinking rapidly."
• Million Dollar Bodyguards: The Sky-High Cost of Protecting the World’s Elite - "Disney stars, pop singers, and actors, and actresses don’t have the freedom that we take for granted, but they do have the money to hire help to make their lives easier. In Hollywood, a good bodyguard is like finding a needle in a haystack, which is why these stars pay through the nose to keep them. Luckily, they can afford it."
• MILLIONAIRE - definition & explanation.
• Millionaire tells millennials: if you want a house, stop buying avocado toast - The Guardian.
• Millionaires call on governments worldwide to ‘tax us now’ - "Group of 102 wealthy people say tax would help tackle gulf between rich and poor."
• Millionaires who support taxing the rich protest in front of Jeff Bezos’s homes - "Demonstrations organized by Patriotic Millionaires, whose members earn incomes of over $1m or have assets worth over $5m."
• Minecraft inventor hates being a billionaire - Daily Mail.
• Mohamed Al Fayed accused of rape & sexual assault by 20 women - "The BBC has heard testimony from more than 20 female ex-employees who say the billionaire, who died last year aged 94, sexually assaulted or raped them. The documentary and podcast - Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods - gathered evidence that, during Fayed’s ownership, Harrods not only failed to intervene, but helped cover up abuse allegations."
• Mohamed Al Fayed dies aged 94: Former Harrods & Ritz Paris Hotel owner - "Passes away nearly 26 years to the day since his son Dodi was killed in car crash with Princess Diana."
• Mohamed Al Fayed: perennial outsider, savvy businessman & grief-broken father - "The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figure."
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• Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich - The Guardian.
• Monaco Grand Prix weekend: How the rich & famous spend it - CNN.
• Monaco Yacht Show 2019 unveils its biggest superyacht fleet ever - "Ever wanted to see what more than $4,000,000,000 looks like when it's floating on the water? The glitzy European principality of Monaco is about to make that happen."
• MONEY CENTRAL - Times Online.
• More than 15,000 millionaires expected to leave Russia in 2022 - "Data suggests exits after invasion of Ukraine, and UAE to overtake US and UK as top destination for world’s wealthy."
• Moscow-on-Thames: Soviet-born billionaires and their ties to UK's political elite - "How party donations, sports teams and lavish London residences have granted access to highest echelons of public life."
• Mossack Fonseca: inside the firm that helps the super-rich hide their money - The Guardian.
• Most Billionaires Can't Stay That Rich After 20 Years, UBS Says - Bloomberg Business.
• Murder In The House Of Gucci - "The call that would change everything came late in the evening of January 8, 1997. The anonymous caller asked to speak to Filippo Ninni, the head of police for the Italian region of Lombardia, and demanded a meeting. The caller did not want to say too much over the phone: 'I’m going to say just one name: Gucci.'"

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• Nearly 100 new people achieved billionaire status in the US during the pandemic - "Of the almost 500 new billionaires globally, nearly 100 of them are in the US. There are 724 US billionaires total (out of 2,755 billionaires globally), and their wealth amounts to $4.4 trillion - $2 trillion more than last year, according to Forbes."
• new King of Scotland - Daily Mail.
• New Zealand loses appeal to rich foreigners as investor visa numbers plunge - "Arrival of super wealthy in country had previously left government facing awkward questions."
• non-domiciled status - sometimes called a 'non-dom', is a person living in the United Kingdom who has either acquired a foreign domicile from their father, which is known as a 'domicile of origin', or who has abandoned their domicile of origin and can demonstrate the intention to reside outside of the UK indefinitely and actually enacts the intention.
• Norway's Government Pension Fund Global - market value as of March 13, 2015: 7,000+ billion NOK.
• Norway's oil fund tops 10.000.000.000.000 NOK market value (US$1.092 billion) - since 1996. "We work to safeguard and build financial wealth for future generations." The aim of the oil fund is to ensure responsible and long-term management of revenue from Norway’s oil and gas resources in the North Sea so that this wealth benefits both current and future generations. The fund’s formal name is the Government Pension Fund Global.
• Not Even the Rich Can Buy Fancy Watches - "If you’re in the market for a $25,000 Rolex, you better know a guy. And you better have $50,000."
• Nouveau Riche - definition & explanation.

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• OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD): Gini, poverty, income, Methods and Concepts
• OFFSHORE SECRETS - Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide cash offshore.
• On ‘Succession,’ if You’re Eating, You’re Losing - "When it comes to the high-powered Roy dynasty, food is for the weak and striving."
• On Warren Buffett’s 90th Birthday, Private Wisdom From The Oracle - Delivered In 90 Seconds Flat - Forbes.
• ONASSIS' 10 GOLDEN RULES FOR SUCCESS
• Oppidum - since 2015. "ULTRA-LUXURY FORTIFIED UNDERGROUND RESIDENCES." We are an engineering, technology and development company specializing in ultra-luxury fortified underground residences. We create spaces that are totally secure and utterly discreet yet sumptuously appointed and entirely bespoke - all underground, within your own domain. You can be sure that you, your family and your most treasured possessions have a place of safety and comfort close at hand for as long as you need, whatever happens in the world outside.
• Oxfam points to 5 likely candidates to be the world's first trillionaire - "Here's where the fortunes of Musk, Arnault, Bezos, Ellison and Buffett stand today. The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%. In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade - as the anti-poverty organization pointed to the growing wealth gap that skyrocketed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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• Pajama Rich - the state of being exceedingly wealthy to the point where one forgoes usual attire for pajamas.
• Panama papers: the names - "Search our database of 37,000 names linked to Mossack Fonseca companies in the tax haven of Panama." The Sunday Times.
• Pandemic spurred record numbers of ‘ultra wealthy’ in 2021 - "Rising global stock markets and increased property prices swelled ranks of ultra-high net worth individuals, according to new report."
• Pandora Papers - "The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful. Read more." International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
• Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich & powerful - "Millions of documents reveal offshore deals and assets of more than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials."
• passports are new status symbol for the ultra rich - The Telegraph.
• Passports for purchase: How the elite get through a pandemic - "Super-rich families are buying multiple citizenships to prepare for the next lockdown. For most people, the coronavirus pandemic has meant fewer travel options. Not so for super-rich families who are increasingly using their money to cross borders that would otherwise be closed to them."
• Patagonia founder's big donation potentially saves him over $1 billion in taxes - "Shows how the wealthy aren't subject to the same rules as the rest of us."
• PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES FOR FISCAL STRENGTH - "Private jets shouldn’t have been tax deductible in the first place."
• Paul Allen: Largest art auction ever to sell Microsoft co-founder's $1bn collection - "An estimated $1bn worth of art belonging to the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will be sold at the largest art auction in history. The collection includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Renoir, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein. Christie's auction house said proceeds of the November sale would be given to charity, as Mr Allen wished."
• Peter Thiel amasses $5bn tax-free nest egg in retirement account - "Billionaire Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, has used a retirement account designed to help ordinary Americans save for their golden years to amass a $5bn tax-free nest egg, according to records obtained by ProPublica."
• Poor little rich kids – the perils of inheriting vast wealth - The Guardian.
• Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling - "Rising consumption by the affluent has a far greater environmental impact than the birth rate in poorer nations."
• Power Lunch with Warren Buffett
• private jet shopping service helping the super-rich skip VAT - "Naran is offering his customers a service that allows them to effectively courier their goods on a jet through a freight forwarding licence. The good news is that Naran has found a work-around to avoid paying the VAT. The bad news is that it is only good news if you’re a member of the private jetterati."
• Prosperity theology - religious belief among some Christians, who hold that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth.
• Putin: As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "According to Swedish economist Anders Aslund, the author of the 2019 book Russia’s Crony Capitalism, Putin has recruited family, childhood friends, bodyguards and others to hold his money. He estimates that each person has between $500 million and $2 billion and that his net worth is anywhere between $100 billion and $130 billion."
• Putin’s daughter, a young billionaire & the president’s friends - Reuters.
• Putin’s Wealth: No ‘smoking gun’ but some ‘smoking watches’ - WatchDog Watcher.

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• Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a Billionaire? - The New York Times.

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• Ranked: The Countries With the Highest Wealth Inequality - "This graphic visualizes the 10 countries with the most wealth inequality as measured by the Gini index, using figures from the UBS Global Wealth Report 2024."
• Real-Time Billionaires List - "Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. In cases where an individual owns a stake in a private company that accounts for 20% or more of his or her net worth, the value of the company will be adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. A rotating cast of the five biggest winners and losers throughout the day is featured at the top of the page, followed by the complete list of billionaires ranked in order of net worth."
• Record number of millionaires relocating in 2024, with Monaco among top destinations - "A record 128,000 millionaires are expected to relocate globally in 2024, up 6.6 percent from the previous year, driven by factors like tax policy changes, better market conditions, and a desire for improved living standards."
• Relative Solutions - supports high net worth families managing wealth through generations addressing family governance, strategic planning, philanthropy, etc.
• Rented penguins & $300,000 dinners: The wildest holiday requests from the super rich - "Whether they're arranging $300,000 private dinners with celebrity chefs or pop-up luxury campsites in the steppes of the northern Sahara, luxury travel agents and concierge services manage to make the impossible a reality."
• Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin - The Guardian.
• Revenge Of The Winklevii - "After losing an epic battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership of Facebook and being shunned in Silicon Valley, CAMERON and TYLER WINKLEVOSS are back - this time as budding Bitcoin billionaires at the center of the future of money, the creative economy and quite possibly a new operating model for Big Tech itself."
• RICH - "How much do you need to be RICH!?"
• Rich Chinese millennials are creating new status symbols. Here are 11 ways they are redefining luxury - "Chinese millennials are redefining luxury status symbols by refocusing on quiet luxury and personal style. Solo travel, pre-loved luxury fashion, and fine dining are also gaining popularity."
• Rich Kids of Russia - Daily Mail.
• Rich people who build ‘really fancy houses’ become ‘less happy’ - "Charlie Munger lived in the same home for 70 years."
• Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift? - "Evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor - and shoplifting is only ‘the first layer of the onion’."
• Richard Branson flies to edge of space in Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane - "Spaceplane went into sub-orbital flight days ahead of a rival launch by Jeff Bezos."
• Richard Branson is going to space. How risky is that? - "There's plenty that could go wrong. The rocket motor could fail to light up. The cabin could lose pressure and threaten the passengers' lives. And the intense physics involved when hurtling out of - and back into - the Earth's atmosphere could tear the vehicle apart."
• Richard Branson’s 17-Year Journey Into Space - "How The Virgin Founder Became First Billionaire To Fly Own Rocket."
• Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt - "The billionaire space race looks set to kick space tourism into gear in earnest in the near future. But the implications of these developments aren't quite as rosy as Branson's overly optimistic message implies - and dreaming big billionaire-style might come at a hefty toll for the rest of us. First, there's the environmental cost of space travel. Virgin Galactic claims that the carbon footprint for passengers of its suborbital space flight is comparable to that of a business class ticket on a transatlantic flight (which is about 0.2 kilograms per kilometer or 0.44 pounds per .62 miles - amounting to a massive 2,220 kilo output per passenger over a typical 11,100-kilometer flight or 2.45 tons over a 6,897-mile flight)."
• Richard Lugner - (1932-2024). Austrian businessman in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, and a political candidate not affiliated with any of the Austrian political parties. In 1992, 'Mörtel' Lugner and Mausi Lugner (his former wife Christina) brought Harry Belafonte to Lugner City, and also took him along to the Vienna Opera Ball. Each year thereafter, the couple would pay a celebrity to visit the shopping centre and then accompany them as their guest to the ball. The only star Lugner was unable to have as his guest, despite several attempts, was Liz Taylor.
• Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years - "Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7 billion a day even as at least 1.7 billion workers now live in countries where inflation is outpacing wages." OXFAM.
• Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030 - The Guardian.
• Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016 - Oxfam.
• Richest 62 billionaires as wealthy as half the world population combined - The Guardian.
• Richest Countries In The World: Tiny Luxembourg At The Top - "Most of the countries at the top of a new list of the wealthiest in the world are not among the biggest or the mightiest. Many, in fact, are among the smallest: Consider Luxembourg, which tops the list published by Global Finance. Singapore, Ireland, Qatar, Macao and Switzerland follow the world’s only grand duchy. The indicators of a nation’s wealth can vary from one ranking to another - thus the differences among them - but often include a country’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP (goods and services produced by a country during one year), the GDP per capita (the average amount of money that each person in a country earns in a year) or the gross national income, or GNI."
• Rihanna is now officially a billionaire, according to Forbes - "The business magazine, which tracks and publishes data on the world's wealthiest individuals, on Wednesday reported the 33-year-old pop star's estimated net worth to be $1.7 billion, making her the wealthiest female musician and the second-richest woman in entertainment behind Oprah Winfrey."
• Rihanna leapfrogs homegrown stars on UK music rich list - "Barbados-born singer near the top of the wealth charts after moving to London last year. Rihanna has staked a place near the top of the UK’s annual music rich list after moving to Britain last year, beating the likes of Mick Jagger, Elton John and Rod Stewart."
• rise of perpetual cruises that offer the very wealthy a new home at sea - "After numerous delays, the Odyssey finally sets sail from Belfast for three-and- a-half years - but what drives people to spend a fortune living full-time on luxury liners?"
• Robber barons - Wikipedia.
• Robert Durst: US millionaire sentenced to life for murder - "US real estate heir Robert Durst, subject of HBO crime documentary series The Jinx, has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his best friend."
• Robert Maxwell Life & death of a magnate - and how it shaped his daughter Ghislaine - "The murky life & death of Robert Maxwell - and how it shaped his daughter Ghislaine."
• Rocket men: how billionaires are using celebrities as PR for their space projects - "Critics see the ‘awful business’ of private space tourism as having little technological or exploration value."
• Roman Abramovich Breaks Records Again, With a Second Outrageous Private Jet - "What could you possibly wish for Christmas when you already own a jaw-dropping collection of luxury cars, a $600 million superyacht, and a giant private jet? Apparently, a second private jet that blows all the others out of the water, as the most expensive one in the world. That, of course, if you’re Roman Abramovich."
• Roman Abramovich posed threat to public security, Swiss police said - "Police reported ‘suspicion of money laundering and presumed contacts with criminal organisations’."
• Rothschild Archive - "Despite the depredations of time and occasional bouts of over-enthusiastic destruction, a high proportion of the records of N M Rothschild & Sons have survived across nearly two centuries of continuing business, in good physical condition and carefully preserved order, looked after by generations of clerks in the Archives Department of the London Bank."
• royal clan: who’s who, what do they do & how much money do they get? - "The Guardian has calculated what each working royal has received during their working life carrying out official functions."
• Rules Of The Rich - 1. Pay yourself first. 2. Leverage other people's time and money. 3. Always have multiple streams of income. 4. Never rely solely on earned income. 5. Understand the power of compound returns. 6. Prioritize financial education. 7. Avoid lifestyle inflation. 8. Build and maintain a strong network. 9. Invest in assets, not liabilities. 10. Take calculated risks.
• Rupert Murdoch's media empire through the years - "Rupert Murdoch built one of the world's most influential media empires over a 70-year career, and is now stepping down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. After his father died, he inherited a half-share of local newspapers in the Australian city of Adelaide in the 1950s, before going on to own some of the most influential newspapers and TV stations in the world. Here is archive footage of some of his biggest acquisitions."
• Russian asset tracker - "Introducing a project to track down and catalogue the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin." OCCRP.
• Russian billionaire settles with ex-wife five years after £450m payout ruling - "Farkhad Akhmedov had contested 2017 decision but has now reached an agreement over divorce."
• Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West's leading educational & cultural institutions - "Their names are etched in stone alongside some of the most powerful people and companies in American history - the Rockefellers, the Walgreens, and the Coca-Cola company."
• Russian Oligarch’s $500 Million Yacht Is in the Middle of Britain’s Costliest Divorce - The New York Times.
• Russian oligarchs - Wikipedia.
• Russian oligarchs: Where do they hide their 'dark money'? - "For decades, Russian oligarchs have moved billions of dollars of ill-gotten money abroad, putting it in shell companies to make it extremely hard to trace. Now, countries around the world are taking steps to track it down."

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• Saudi billionaire playboy Adnan Khashoggi dies aged 82 - Daily Mail.
• Saudi billionaires removed from Forbes' latest list 2018 - CNN.
• Saudi Royal Family Is Still Spending in an Age of Austerity - The New York Times.
• 'Scandals & secrets': On board the world's most exclusive private residential ship - "It's a floating city exclusively home to the 1%, a playground for multimillionaires and billionaires that circumnavigates the world's oceans."
• Seasonably Rich: How much are musicians making from our favourite Christmas songs? - The New Musical Express.
• Secrecy, sex & sun: captain reveals life aboard superyachts - "Billionaires’ excesses are under scrutiny like never before after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The secretive world of superyachts is the ultimate in billionaire excess, where tycoons cavort with celebrities, politicians and sex workers, and where privacy is protected by non-disclosure agreements ensuring absolute discretion from well-paid staff."
• Secret billionaires: five people you didn't know were super rich - "Forbes and Bloomberg track the net worth of the wealthiest people. But what if we said there were secret billionaires too?"
• Secret Lives of the Super Rich - (2014-). CNBC show: Peering Into The Secret Lives Of The Super Rich.
• Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
• Should You Get a Divorce Now or Later? - The New York Times.
• Silvio Berlusconi - a life in pictures - "Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-filled parties and allegations of corruption has died aged 86."
• Silvio Berlusconi: Here’s how Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi made his billions - "How Berlusconi’s wealth, built through the ownership of some of Italy’s most recognizable companies, including successful soccer club AC Milan, will be split between his five children is not yet clear. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index put Berlusconi’s net worth at $7.6 billion as of Monday. So how did Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since World War II - as well as one of its most controversial - make his money?"
• Silvio Berlusconi, the belly dancer & the bunga bunga parties - "Much has been written about the ways in which the late Silvio Berlusconi's populist politics reshaped Italian public life, but the ex-prime minister was even better known for his lurid and colourful personal life."
• Some 1-Percenters May Not Be as Rich as You Think - The New York Times.
• SpaceX could make Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire, says Morgan Stanley - "Most of world’s richest person’s fortune so far has come from electric car company Tesla."
• Spanish Retailer Just Became World's Richest Person - Forbes.
• Spear's Magazine - since 2006. "Multi-award-winning wealth management and luxury lifestyle media brand whose flagship magazine has become a must-read for the ultra-high-net- worth (UHNW) community. It is also required reading for the affluent financial services community, including the bankers, lawyers and family offices who advise the wealthy."
• squillionaire - definition & explanation.
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• STABIQ TREASURE HOUSE - "Your Safest Place." In times of swift political and social change and increased uncertainty on the financial markets, there is a growing desire for safety and consistency. Our Asset Protection Solutions offer our customers sustainable and reliable solutions as well as a safe haven. In collaboration with our attorney and trust company, we offer the opportunity of storing your valuable items such as gold and precious metals, works of art, jewellery, watches and coin collections in exclusive surroundings within an area of over 6000 m². At the same time, valuables can be presented, viewed and evaluated in our exclusive showrooms. The STABIQ Treasure House is also an Open Customs Warehouse (OCW) managed in accordance with the strict guidelines of the Swiss Customs Authority. Wirtschaftspark 27, 9492 Eschen, Liechtenstein.
• Stars & Their Cars: These Are The Cars The Richest Celebrities Are Buying - "When it comes to living vicariously through others, there’s no greater activity than looking at stars and their cars. From Tesla to Ferrari, every millionaire on this list has their own unique auto tastes and varying levels of wealth that define their collections."
• Stealth Wealth: The Art Of Silent Financial Success - "The practice of stealth wealth offers numerous benefits, from greater financial freedom and flexibility to reduced stress and a more ordinary lifestyle."
• Steve Ballmer Becomes Ninth Member of the $100 Billion Club - "Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., has a net worth of more than $100 billion, making him the ninth person in the world to reach that lofty plateau. Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison fell just short of making it an even 10, ending Wednesday with a fortune of $98.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
• Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing - "For most people, passive income is a bit of extra pocket change that requires minimal effort to earn to supplement a main source of income. For Steve Ballmer, it’s $1 billion. Ballmer, the sixth richest person in the world, is due to collect that much in dividends from Microsoft in 2024. This comes after the tech giant boosted its quarterly dividend payout to 75 cents a share, or $3 a share annually."
• Steve Ballmer, who was once Bill Gates’ assistant, is now richer than his onetime mentor - "But now, his skyrocketing Microsoft holdings have made him richer than the company's founder. The 68-year-old former Microsoft CEO squeaked by his onetime boss Bill Gates to become the sixth richest person in the world on Monday with a net worth of $157 billion."
• Steve Jobs Archive - since September 7, 2022. "With respect for the past and excitement for the future, the Steve Jobs Archive offers people the tools and opportunities to make their own contribution. We are building programs, fellowships, collections, and partnerships that reflect Steve’s values and carry his sense of possibility forward." The archive was introduced by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jobs’ widow, at Vox Media’s Code conference on Wednesday. 'While we do have some artifacts and some actual real material, the archive is much more about ideas,' she said. According to Powell Jobs, the archive is 'rooted in Steve’s long held notion that once you understand that, outside of the natural world, everything in the built environment and all the systems that govern our life on the planet were built and designed by other humans. Once you have that insight, you understand that you as a human can change it, can prod it, can perhaps, interrogate it and stretch it. In that way, human progress happens.'
• Steve Jobs' widow's $140M megayacht SMASHES into another monster vessel owned by telecoms billionaire - "The high-value crash involved the 78-meter Venus, commissioned by the late Apple founder and now owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, and the 105-meter Lady Moura, owned by Mexican billionaire business titan Ricardo Salinas. The two liners, that cost a combined $265 million, slammed into each other after a vicious gust of wind off the Italian coast of Naples put them on a collision course."
• Stock market gains create extra one million millionaires in China - South China Morning Post.
• STOP CODDLING THE SUPER-RICH - Warren Buffett in New York Times (August 14, 2011).
• Study engineering at university if you want to become a billionaire, report suggests - The Telegraph.
• SUDDEN WEALTH SYNDROME - definition & explanation.
• Sumptuary law - laws that attempt to regulate permitted consumption. Traditionally, they were laws that regulated and reinforced social hierarchies and morals through restrictions, often depending upon a person's social rank, on permitted clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.
• Sunday Times Rich List 2023 - "With the first fall in billionaires since the financial crash, is the party finally over?"
• Super rich buying up Italy's mansions under new tax regime - "‘You get the same sort of tax savings you get in Jersey but you get to live somewhere you actually want to live’."
• super-rich discover risks of Instagram snaps - The Guardian.
• Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak - "‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hideouts."
• Super-rich sabbatical: the boom in luxury long breaks for the 1% - "From shark swims to snow leopard treks, a tailored trip of up to a year is now a must-have."
• Super Rich: The Greed Game - documentary: 58 min.
• super-rich are buying more ultra-customized Rolls-Royces & Lamborghinis - "Automakers like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bentley and Rolls-Royce have been doing well as, regardless of whatever is happening in the wider world's economy, the ranks of the ultra-wealthy grow and become richer. Lamborghini sold more than 10,000 vehicles last year for the first time ever and Ferrari had a more than 17% increase in revenue."
• super-rich's sensational planes, trains, automobiles & yachts - "Billionaires like to go from A to B in supreme comfort and style, and think nothing of splurging on the finest and most exclusive modes of transport imaginable. Click or scroll through to reveal the private jets, opulent trains, prestige cars and magnificent megayachts of the planet's richest people."
• Superyacht Sales Are Soaring Thanks to a Wave of Newly Minted Billionaires - "Over 200 new superyachts were launched this year up to September, up from 165 in the same period of 2019."
• Superyachts & bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ - The Guardian.
• Surprisingly rich movie stars - who didn't make all their money from movies - The Telegraph.

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• Tax the rich: these one percenters want people like them to pay higher taxes - "Members of the Patriotic Millionaires say the income gap in the US has become a disaster – and it’s time to ‘take that money back’."
• teddy bear test & other challenges facing the rich who try to flee high-tax states - Los Angeles Times.
• Tesla is now worth more than $1 trillion - "Shares popped more than 12% Monday to close at about $1,025, boosted by two spots of good news: Hertz announced a record order of 100,000 Teslas for its fleet, and influential Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas recently raised his price target on Tesla to $1,200 a share."
• The Bezos of Black Wall Street - "A century ago, O.W. Gurley built an empire of African American businesses in Tulsa. Though it all came burning down in the massacre of 1921, new generations of entrepreneurs rose from the ashes."
• The billionaire boom - "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and six other tech titans made more than $360 billion during the pandemic, which may finally shatter the myth of the benevolent billionaire."
• The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke ... Is Now Officially Broke - "It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now - and he couldn’t be happier."
• The Bling Dynasty - "The Rich are Getting Richer in China."
• The bunker builders preparing for doomsday - "For some, the current crisis is a dummy run for long-term lockdown. Across the world, luxury bunkers are being built for a lucky few to survive calamity and collapse."
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy - since 1988. Biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world. Based in Washington, DC, it is aimed at charity leaders, foundation executives, fund raisers, and other people involved in philanthropy.
• The dark world of my billionaire lifestyle - "Life with a Russian billionaire: money and death threats. They would stay in his chateau in the south of France and had homes across the world. It was an idyllic life, beyond anyone's imagination."
• The doomsday bunker market is thriving amid the coronavirus pandemic - "Home, sweet, home? COVID-19 is fueling a boom in the doomsday bunker market, thanks to some dubious marketing claims."
• the extreme eating habits of billionaires - The Telegraph.
• The Filthy Rich Guide - guide to how the .00001 percent spend their money.
• The Giving Pledge - since 2009. "The Giving Pledge is a commitment by the world's wealthiest individuals and families to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy."
• "The Global super-rich has at least US$21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens." - The research was undertaken for the Tax Justice Network by former McKinsey & Company chief economist James Henry.
• The Gospel of Wealth - article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. Carnegie proposed that the best way of dealing with the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to redistribute their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner.
• The Great Wealth Transfer Is Encouraging Older Collectors to Sell Off Their Art Collections - "Over the next quarter century, some $73 trillion dollars will be passed from America’s Boomer generation to its Gen X and Millennial children in what has been dubbed 'The Great Wealth Transfer.' About half of that figure will go to just the top 1.5 percent of households, aka America’s collecting class."
• The house of Rothschild - YouTube: "The money's prophets" (56 min.).
• The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys & The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them - "The perfect stock trading app for the videogame generation was supposed to 'democratize finance' with zero-commission trades. But the primary plan was to get rich by selling customer trades to the market’s most notorious operators."
• The Kingmaker review – exquisitely horrible portrait of Imelda Marcos - "The former first lady of the Philippines is revealed as a monstrous, loathsome, absurdly queenly figure in Lauren Greenfield’s superb documentary."
• The Maldives is auctioning off 16 private islands to the super rich - "At 10am local time on June 24, the Maldives government is auctioning off 16 of its 1,190 islands, to tempt foreign investors into helping to boost a tourist economy that has been hit hard by the pandemic. There are no reserve prices for the islands, each of which comes with a 50-year lease."
• The man who could have been a billionaire but chose to make Wikipedia free for the planet - The Telegraph.
• The man who owns 25,000 artworks & 15,000 fine wine bottles - "History's riches: Inside the private collection of a Rothschild heir."
• The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so - "Nine months. That's how long it took the world's top 1,000 billionaires to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit."
• The Millionaires Are Fleeing. Maybe You Should, Too - The New York Times.
• The Money Masters - YouTube: 3 hr, 30 min. Documentary.
• The mystery of billionaires’ long marriages - "It is remarkable how many of the super-successful have stuck by their first spouse."
• The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician - Slate.
• The Official Bitcoin Billionaire's Handbook - "How to speak, act, and shop like a cryptocrat - even if you have no idea what a blockchain is."
• THE ONE PERCENT - YouTube. This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America.
• The pandemic is helping the rich get even richer. It's time to tax their obscene wealth - "Bernie Sanders: Inequality is becoming worse as tens of millions of Americans face unemployment, loss of healthcare, evictions and hunger."
• THE PRICE OF OFFSHORE REVISITED - tax justice network.
• The rich are different, but their smartphones aren't - "The world might be turning to technology to solve everything from traffic to dating, but no one app or gadget will save the rich and famous from falling prey to cyberattacks, according to digital security experts."
• The rich are getting richer & they’re fueling a private jet boom - "Business jet take-offs and landings in the U.S. are up 40% year-on-year. Data from Jefferies Equity Research shows that as IPO activity climbed, the volume of business jet deliveries rose in correlation with it in 2021. Inventory of used jets is at record lows, around or below 3% for most major jet manufacturers."
• The Rich Are Not Who We Think They Are. And Happiness Is Not What We Think It Is, Either - "A groundbreaking 2019 study by four economists, 'Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century,' analyzed de-identified data of the complete universe of American taxpayers to determine who dominated the top 0.1 percent of earners. The study didn’t tell us about the small number of well-known tech and shopping billionaires but instead about the more than 140,000 Americans who earn more than $1.58 million per year. The researchers found that the typical rich American is, in their words, the owner of a 'regional business,' such as an 'auto dealer' or a 'beverage distributor.'"
• The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New York Times.
• The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters - The New York Times.
• The rich vs the very very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion - "When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalised capital"
• the richest of the rich and their island getaways – interactive - The Guardian.
• The Rockefellers - (2hr, 14 min) documentary about the Rockefellers.
• The Rothschild Archive - established in 1978 by Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild.
• The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World & The Billionaire Escape Plans - "Our lives are in a constant state of flux, the political situation aside, our earth is rapidly changing. Between the increase of bizarre weather patterns hitting the earth, and recent major volcanic activity, now more than ever our focus is on our planets future."
• ‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk - "He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?"
• The staggering rise of India’s super-rich - The Guardian.
• The Telegram Billionaire & His Dark Empire - "Telegram is one of the world's most popular chat apps - and possibly the most dangerous. There is little regulation of the platform, which is popular with criminals and terrorists. Who is the mastermind behind it?"
• The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions - by American sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). Famous in the History of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. The Veblen Good is named after his concepts of conspicuous consumption and status-seeking. A MUST READ!
• the truth about Robert Maxwell - "The author of A Very English Scandal charts the rise, ignominious fall and not-so-mysterious death of the publishing tycoon, who was obsessed with his rival, Rupert Murdoch."
• The ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets & it's leading to their extinction - "Cheetahs are ending up in Gulf Arab mansions. And it's wiping them out."
• The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels - Forbes.
• The wealthiest terrorists in history: How ISIS has plundered oil fields, antiquities and stolen a fortune of US$2 Billion - Daily Mail.
• The Wealthy Are Leaving Cities For Good - "Nearly half of wealthy individuals may move out of cities permanently, according to a new study on lasting life changes after coronavirus."
• The World Now Has Three People Worth More Than $100 Billion Each - "Bernard Arnault joins Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in $100 billion club."
• The World's Billionaires - Today’s Winners & Losers.
• THE WORLD'S REAL-TIME BILLIONAIRES - "Today’s Winners and Losers." Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. In cases where an individual owns a stake in a private company that accounts for 20% or more of his or her net worth, the value of the company will be adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. A rotating cast of the five biggest winners and losers throughout the day is featured at the top of the page, followed by the complete list of billionaires ranked in order of net worth.
• There’s Only One Warren Buffett - The New York Times.
• These cities will be very rich in 10 years - CNN Money.
• These Countries Have Gained The Most Billionaires In The Past Decade - "Between 2010 and 2020, the number of billionaires on Forbes’ annual list nearly tripled. Here are the 10 countries that gained the most."
• These U.S. Billionaires Kept Funding Legislators Who Refused To Certify The Election After Jan. 6 - "More than 50 billionaires donated in the second half of 2021 to legislators who voted against certifying the presidential election, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records." Forbes.
• They Are the Heirs of Nazi Fortunes & They Aren’t Apologizing - "The backbone of Germany’s economy today is the car industry. It’s not just that it accounts for about 10 percent of G.D.P.; brands like Porsche, Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen are recognized around the world as symbols of German industrial ingenuity and excellence. These companies spend millions on branding and advertising to ensure they are thought of this way. They spend less money and energy on discussing their roots. These corporations can trace their success directly back to Nazis: Ferdinand Porsche persuaded Hitler to put Volkswagen into production. His son, Ferry Porsche, who built up the company, was a voluntary SS officer. Herbert Quandt, who built BMW into what it is today, committed war crimes. So did Friedrich Flick, who came to control Daimler-Benz. Unlike Mr. Quandt, Mr. Flick was convicted at Nuremberg."
• This is why the billionaires have all of the money & you do not - "Their money is a cake the size of the moon - a lot of money."
• Timing, luck or talent - what makes a billionaire? - "What do an Italian communist student of mime, a toddler with an eye for a ball and a comedian who jokes about nothing have in common? They all went on to become members of a very select global club. Miuccia Prada, Tiger Woods and Jerry Seinfeld are among about 2,800 people on the planet who are US-dollar billionaires."
• Top 10 Billionaire Moments Of The Decade - "From Elizabeth Holmes’ Downfall To Donald Trump’s Election."
• Top 10 Countries by Value of All Their Natural Resources - "This visualization shows the top 10 countries by the value of all their combined natural resources, from oil to gold."
• Top 10 Hedge Fund Earners - The New York Times.
• Top 10 Most Powerful Families In History - Listverse.
• Top 25 Sunday Times Rich List 2017 - Business Insider.
• Trickle-down economics - also referred to as "trickle-down theory", chiefly and originally in United States politics, is the idea that economic benefits provided to businesses and upper income levels will indirectly benefit poorer members of society when the resources inevitably "trickle down" to them. The term has been attributed to humorist Will Rogers, who said during the Great Depression that "money was all appropriated for the top in hopes that it would trickle down to the needy."
• trustafarian - (Slang): A young person with the fashion sensibilities of a hippie, or any other countercultural trend, especially anarchism, Maoism, or punk rock, who subscribes to an unemployed, shiftless life of hedonism based upon an unlimited amount of funds (a trust fund). A wealthy young person who adopts an alternative lifestyle incorporating elements from non-Western cultures.
• tycoons & world leaders who built secret UK property empires - The Guardian.

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• Über-warehouses for the ultra-rich - "Ever more wealth is being parked in fancy storage facilities. For some customers, they are an attractive new breed of tax haven."
• Ukrainian oligarchs - Wikipedia.
• ULTRA-RICH HIGH NET WORTH INDIVIDUAL | UHNWI - defined as having a net worth of at least US$30 million in constant 2012 dollars (after accounting for shares in public and private companies, residential and passion investments such as art, planes and real estate). At last count, there were 211,275 UHNW individuals in the world, with a total combined net worth of US$29.7 trillion. Billionaires are a special category of UHNW individuals, having net worth in excess of US$1 billion (after accounting for shares in public and private companies, residential and passion investments such as art, planes and real estate). At last count there were 2,325 billionaires in the world, with a combined net worth of US$7.3 trillion. These individuals represent just over 1% of the world's UHNW population and 24% of the world's UHNW total wealth.
• Ultra-Rich May Actually Be Less Intelligent Than Lower-Paid People, Study Finds - "Intelligence helps in making money, but only to a point."
• United is offering high-paying customers their own airport terminal - CNBC.
• US billionaires don’t pay tax & our politicians don’t seem bothered - "Fifteen years of tax information on thousands of plutocrats is one of the biggest stories of the decade. And yet ... crickets."
• US billionaires 'have received $1.1tn windfall in Covid pandemic' - "Billions made by richest 660 people could pay for all of coronavirus relief package, says IPS thinktank."
• US billionaires' fortunes have skyrocketed $845 billion since March - "Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of America's billionaires saw their fortunes skyrocket over the past six months during the coronavirus pandemic - while millions of Americans are now earning less than they were before the crisis began, according to a new study."
• US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show - "Astronomical gap between the pay of workers and bosses exposed in report on earnings of America’s top 350 CEOs."
• US has the most billionaires in the world - but here's what it doesn't have - "Wealth in the US isn’t trickling down when compared to other countries. Just look at Finland, the happiest country in the world: it only has six billionaires."
• UK super-rich would be ‘bored to death’ in tax havens - survey - "Interviews with top earners reveal many are too attached to UK’s cultural institutions and fear stigma surrounding economic migration."

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• Vladimir Putin: As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "According to Swedish economist Anders Aslund, the author of the 2019 book Russia’s Crony Capitalism, Putin has recruited family, childhood friends, bodyguards and others to hold his money. He estimates that each person has between $500 million and $2 billion and that his net worth is anywhere between $100 billion and $130 billion."

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• Want To Be A Trillionaire? Try Space Mining - "There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Because some are full of materials that are rare on Earth, they have been valued at stupendous amounts. But the most valuable resource in space may be something that's abundant back on the ground."
• Want to fly like the 1%? A guide to private jets - CNBC.
• Warren Buffett dubbed his private jet 'The Indefensible' - then renamed it 'The Indispensable' after realizing it was worth the money - "Warren Buffett bought his first private jet in 1986 and upgraded to a much pricier one in 1989. Warren Buffett may be one of the wealthiest people on the planet, but he's notoriously frugal. The famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO initially balked at the idea of owning a private jet, but grew to appreciate the luxury and convenience."
• Warren Buffett holds these stocks for the fat yields - "One man who’s made a lot of money from dividend stocks is legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. In fact, the majority of Berkshire’s holdings are now dividend-paying companies. And that means each year, the Oracle of Omaha collects billions of dollars just from dividends."
• Warren Buffett’s Case for Capitalism - "'I’m a card-carrying capitalist,' Warren Buffett said on Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting - aka 'Woodstock for Capitalists'."
• Warren Buffett's wife grumbles about $4 coffee at Sun Valley - "The wife of legendary investor Warren Buffett was overheard at Allen & Co’s annual 'summer camp for billionaires' complaining to a resort staffer about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee."
• Wealth Inequality Rising Fast, Oxfam Says, Faulting Tax Havens - The New York Times.
• Wealth of world's 10 richest men doubled in pandemic, Oxfam says - "Lower incomes for the world's poorest contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day, its report claims. Oxfam typically releases a report on global inequality at the start of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. However for the second year running, the meeting (scheduled for this week) will be online-only after the emergence of the Omicron variant derailed plans to return to an in-person event."
• WEALTH REPORT 2014 - produced by Knight Frank in conjunction with Citi Private Bank. Offers a unique perspective on the key luxury property markets around the world.
• Wealth Report 2021 - 15th edition of The Wealth Report published by Knight Frank.
• Wealth secret of the super rich revealed: be born into a rich family - "The 10 richest dynasties, such as those behind Walmart and Mars, grew their net worth by $136bn during the pandemic, report finds."
• Wealth tax on super-rich could raise $2tn globally, campaigners say - "The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax."
• Wealth X - since 2010. "Data Driven Intelligence on the World's Wealthiest Individuals." The leading wealth information and insight business offering unique data assets and insight on the world's wealthiest individuals.
• Wealthiest Americans’ tax avoidance - the shock report’s most striking details - "A new investigation by ProPublica shows in some years men such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk paid no federal income tax."
• Wealthy Norwegians Are Moving To This Remote Tax Haven - Forbes.
• What Africa's Richest Man Thinks Would Make Africa Rich - TIME Magazine.
• What Could Raising Taxes on the 1% Do? Surprising Amounts - The New York Times.
• What could the US afford if it raised billionaires' taxes? We do the math - "If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they did in the 40s and 50s, the change could be transformative."
• What degree you should study to become a billionaire - The Telegraph.
• What Do Rich People Eat On Private Jets? - "It’s not easy to eat well on airplanes. Despite the obvious disadvantages - like not possessing kitchens - most airlines settle for terribly boring, terribly ‘cooked’ plates of food that never quite feel, well, edible. And then, of course, there are private jets. In spite of their size, these seem to be the singular route to eat well in the sky. Over the last few years we’ve seen Cardi B chowing down on crab legs in hers, Kanye West bingeing on Chick-fil-A in his, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson sharing an enormous hand-crafted birthday cake—a gift from his flight crew—on Instagram."
• What Donald Trump’s Plaza Deal Reveals About His White House Bid - The New York Times.
• What it's like to own a superyacht - "In a rare interview, Folch-Rusiñol Corachán gave CNN Travel the rundown of what it's actually like to own one of these lavish leviathans, why he's willing to spend his millions keeping it afloat, what he uses it for -- and whether his friends are jealous."
• What jobs did the world's top business people do before they were millionaires? - The Telegraph.
• what rich people can learn from Parasite - "Bong Joon-ho’s savage Oscar-winning satire offers plenty of helpful insights into how the wealthy can avoid being preyed on by the less fortunate."
• What the Rich Won’t Tell You - The New York Times.
• What the Saga of One of the World's Richest Men Reveals About China Under Xi Jinping - "Where Is Alibaba Founder Jack Ma?"
• What the super rich want on a superyacht - "Glass, silence and no offices."
• What the Ultrarich Wear to the Grocery Store - "The Class of Palm Beach social media accounts showcase designer-label-laden outfits spotted around that wealthy town."
• What Would You Do To Become A Billionaire? What Would Keyser SÖze Do? - Forbes.
• What’s the Status of Flaunting Your Status? - "In the world of the ultrawealthy, luxury is only quiet if you don’t know what to listen for."
• When will we see the world's first trillionaire? - The Guardian.
• Where billionaires spend the holidays - "Many people spend the holiday season at home with friends or family. Meanwhile, the world's richest people jet off to ski towns, second homes, and destination resorts. Here's a look at some of the most popular destinations for the ultrawealthy during the holidays."
• Where do the rich, famous and powerful stay in Davos? - The Telegraph.
• Where Elon Musk Lives Since He Pledged To Ditch ‘Almost All Physical Possessions’ - "After promising to sell nearly everything he owned last year including six mansions in California, Tesla’s billionaire CEO has taken up residence in a studio-apartment sized rental - here’s what it looks like inside and out."
• Where the Billionaires Come From - The New York Times.
• Where the rich & famous come to hide - "Monte Argentario: Southern Tuscany's best kept secret."
• Where the World’s Wealthiest Invest Their Billions - The New York Times.
• Who Are the Richest of the Rich? - The New York Times.
• Who’s Who Behind the Most Expensive Private Jets in the World - "Celebrities are used to living lives full of luxurious items that the average Joe can’t afford. From sprawling mansions to top-of-the-line cars, being rich has never looked so good. While driving a fancy car is one thing, every A-lister knows they’ve truly made it when they buy a private jet. These multi-million-dollar aircraft aren’t just a means to an end, but an investment that allows the world’s elite to get from A to B. From Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett to talented artist power-couple Beyonce and Jay-Z, these famous faces know all about traveling in style."
• Why are billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg building bunkers & buying islands? - "Tycoons who buy underground bunkers may seem like they’re preparing for apocalypse - but they’re not, say these University of Queensland researchers."
• Why are billionaires obsessed with going to space? - "If civilisation perishes on planet Earth, Musk, Bezos and Branson seem to think humans have a backup elsewhere."
• Why Billionaires Are Buying Up Sports Teams - "Soaring team values, investment security, and extreme scarcity make franchise ownership a magnet for magnates, the rare investment capable of making even dumb money look smart. The economics of sports franchise ownership have exploded beyond imagination. The latest status symbol for owners: 80,000 seats and more toilets than you could dream of."
• Why 'Common Prosperity’ Has China’s Billionaires Running for Cover - TIME Magazine.
• Why does Donald Trump hate Jeff Bezos? - The Guardian.
• Why Don't Rich People Use Phone Cases? - "Ditching a Phone Case Is the Latest Symbol of Stealth Wealth. he internet can’t stop talking about 'quiet luxury' and 'stealth wealth,' trendy new descriptors for the type of expensive minimalism that has long been associated with a certain brand of old money. There’s one quietly trending stealth wealth signifier that, technically, millions of people could adopt right now: stripping the case off your smartphone."
• Why Inequality Matters - Bill Gates.
• Why it is no longer cool to be a crazy rich Asian in China - "For years, China's glamorous rich have been known to be ostentatious, showing off their luxury cars and handbags online - often to the envy of their followers. But increasingly, any kind of wealth flaunting - intentional or otherwise - is being met with hostility and disdain."
• Why Kate Spade Won't See A Penny Of The $2.4 Billion Sale To Coach - Forbes.
• Why private jets are the next big thing for 'poorer' millionaires - The Telegraph.
• Why Rich Americans Are Fleeing To The Caribbean This Winter - "Rich Europeans and Americans are flocking to the Caribbean, but not for the usual winter sun. More and more wealthy individuals are moving for longer periods than usual. Citizenship advisers, government agencies and real estate developers say they have seen a rapid increase in business over the past few months. Even luxury hotels say they are booking in guests for long-term stays."
• Why rich convicts hire prison consultants - "Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is turning himself in on Monday - and we may see more headline convicts behind bars in the near future as cases like the college admissions scandal wind through the justice system. When the rich leave their luxury mansions for a spell in the big house, they sometimes turn to specialised consultants to cushion the blow of prison life."
• Why so many people hate the super-rich - but still love Elon Musk & Bill Gates, according to psychology - "The Ohio State University and Cornell University published new research on Monday showing why people tend to admire individual billionaires, but dislike the socioeconomic class of extremely wealthy people."
• Why successful people wear the same thing every day - Mashable.
• Why the British are obsessed with the Cotswolds - "The countryside idyll in Oxfordshire is having a moment, and as the super-rich descend upon it, books and TV dramas are depicting the wealthy set of this rural enclave."
• Why the ‘ludicrously capacious’ bag on Succession was such a faux pas for the very wealthiest - "In this week’s newsletter: Poor Bridget’s nouveau riche tastes are everything old money families like the Roys hate: loud, practical and the sign of a class interloper."
• Why the Rich Love Burning Man - Jacobin.
• why the super-rich are even richer than we thought - The Guardian.
• Why The Super-Rich Are Leaving Spain & Setting Sail For Turkey - "New research released by Bloomberg suggests that yachting hotspots such as Spain and France are falling out of favour with the super-rich. Put off by quarantine rules and rising Covid-19 case numbers on the Riviera, yachts are setting sail for alternative European destinations offering sun, sea and seclusion."
• Why the super-rich buy Maltese passports - "Malta's 'golden passports': Why do the super-rich want them?"
• why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ - The Guardian.
• Why the super-rich love understated dressing - "Quiet 'stealth-luxe' fashion is dominating runways and TV screens - but why now? Clare Thorp explores the low-key, under-the-radar world of stealth wealth."
• Why The World’s Wealthy Have Quietly Moved To Dubai - "During the pandemic many expats left Dubai for home. But with so many wealthy families now relocating to Dubai, recruiters are having to offer big incentives to lure investment professionals back to the Emirate."
• Why top academics don't need a Nobel to get rich - The Guardian.
• Why We Hate Cheap Things - The Book of Life.
• will we ever have trillionaires? - "Apple has crossed over into the four-comma club - what would it take for a person to do the same?"
• With an empire of handbags & cognac, Bernard Arnault elbows past tech titan Jeff Bezos to top world’s richest list - "French luxury mogul Bernard Arnault isn’t sending anybody into outer space, but his fortunes sure are taking off."
• With Louboutin, can the Agnellis take on European luxury? - "With a minority stake in Christian Louboutin and a majority stake in Shang Xia, the emblematic Agnelli family signals ambition in luxury goods. Work lies ahead."
• Women see through flashy cars & bling - "Flaunting your wealth is seen as a sign of promiscuity."
• Working rich - defined having a net worth of between US$1 million and US$10 million and still working for a living (2008).
• World gained 5.2m millionaires last year in Covid crisis - report - "Wealth gap has widened as rich cash in on rising shares and house prices, says Credit Suisse."
• World’s Best Venture Capitalist Is Not Who You’d Guess - "In just two days last year, Alfred Lin enjoyed two of the 10 biggest-ever exits among U.S. tech firms. On December 9, food-delivery service DoorDash went public on the New York Stock Exchange; it ended the day with a market capitalization of $60 billion. The next day, home-rental leader Airbnb listed on the Nasdaq, scoring a $79 billion market cap. Those two outcomes alone generated profits - on paper, at least - of more than $21 billion for Lin and his VC firm, Sequoia."
• World's Billionaires - (1987-2021).
• World's billionaires became 20% richer in 2017, report reveals - "UBS report shows billionaires increased fortunes by $1.4tn, more than the GDP of Spain."
• World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2015 - Forbes.
• World’s Most Expensive Cities To Live, If You’re Rich - "First world problems don't come much more niche: 'In which city is it going to be cheaper to buy a piano?' But this is exactly the question Swiss bank Julius Baer has answered for its clients in a new ranking of luxury goods and services in 28 cities around the world, published on Thursday."
• World's most expensive divorce in history - Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev to pay 4,020,555,987 Swiss francs and 20 centimes to his ex-wife Elena (May, 2014).
• world's most expensive divorce settlements - The Telegraph.
• World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince - The New York Times.
• World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions - The Guardian.
• World's richest cities: the top 10 cities billionaires call home - "From Singapore To New York City, more than 26% of the world’s 2,095 billionaires live in just 10 cities on three continents."
• world's richest family live in $478m house, own 700 cars - "Royal family of Abu Dhabi owns eight aircrafts and football team Manchester City."
• World's Richest People Lost $70 Billion Yesterday - Bloomberg.
• world's top 10 richest royals - MyFirstClassLife.
• Would You Pay $1 Billion for This View? - "A 157-acre hilltop plot in Los Angeles is being pitched as the city’s most expensive residential property ever."
• world's two richest men are fighting over space real estate - "SpaceX and Amazon (AMZN) - companies run by the two richest men in the world - are sparring over their competing satellite-based internet businesses, with SpaceX accusing Amazon of 'stifling competition' and Amazon accusing SpaceX of looking to 'smother competition in the cradle.'"
• World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem' - "The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says. It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN."
• World's Wealthiest Family Makes $4 Million Every Hour - "The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1.4 trillion. The numbers are mind-boggling: $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day. That’s how quickly the fortune of the Waltons, the clan behind Walmart Inc., has been growing since last year’s Bloomberg ranking of the world’s richest families."

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• Your work is not your god: welcome to the age of the burnout epidemic - "The reason why so many of us are at the end of our rope? We allowed work to be what gave our lives meaning. The rich are irrational when it comes to work. Out of everyone in our society, they have the least need to earn more money, but they work the most."

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• ZIP Codes With the Priciest Homes - "Where the wealthiest get their mail."