Tag: Wealth

Moderna founders make Forbes list of wealthiest people in the US

Matthew Miller · October 6, 2021 11:17 pm

President Donald Trump arrives at Columbia Metropolitan Airport to attend the "2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum" at Benedict College, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, in West Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump falls off Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans for first time in 25 years

Misty Severi · October 5, 2021 9:25 pm

Documents show Putin’s alleged mistress has $100 million in secret wealth

Misty Severi · October 4, 2021 7:15 pm

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Don’t conflate all the ‘superrich’ with corruption

Rainer Zitelmann · October 4, 2021 6:31 pm

Romanian billionaire and family dead after crashing plane in Milan

Kaelan Deese · October 4, 2021 5:32 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes remarks at a press conference.

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UN secretary-general gets space tourism wrong

Michael Rubin · October 1, 2021 4:36 pm

AOC dons a dress reading "Tax the Rich" at the 2021 Met Gala.

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AOC’s Met Gala dress was a poor way to send a dumb message

Christopher Tremoglie · September 27, 2021 10:54 am

This image provided by NASA Data from six orbits of the Suomi-NPP spacecraft on April 9, 2015 have been assembled into this perspective composite of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans. Tropical Cyclone Joalane is seen over the Indian Ocean. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Attitudes toward the wealthy in seven countries

Rainer Zitelmann · September 17, 2021 9:25 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters, Thursday, June 17, 2021, as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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AOC: A closet capitalist

Becket Adams · September 16, 2021 10:35 pm

If we soak the rich, will everyone get wet?

Stephen Moore · August 27, 2021 3:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2009 file photo, Bernard Arnault. Chairman and CEO of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the Paris-based luxury goods empire, presents the group's 2008 results in Paris. La Libre Belgique newspaper reported Saturday Sept.8, 2012 that Arnault's citizenship application was confirmed by the head of Belgium's naturalization office. French media drew a connection to French President Francois Hollande's plan to raise the tax rate on France's highest earners to 75 percent. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Bernard Arnault surpasses Jeff Bezos again as world’s richest person

Kaelan Deese · August 3, 2021 1:39 pm

MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, donates $2.74 billion more to nonprofit organizations

Jeremy Beaman · June 15, 2021 9:04 pm