Billionaires’ wealth hits new peak as their clout grows: Oxfam
BILLIONAIRE wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability,…
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BILLIONAIRE wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability,…
Did California lose Larry Page? The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019, has seen his net worth soar in the years since—from around $50 billion at the…
President Trump has finally released the names of 46 wealthy donors who bankrolled his transition into office. The list predictably consists of billionaires, lobbyists, and people Trump…
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 1 of “Landman,” “Death and a Sunset,” which premiered Sunday, Nov. 16, on Paramount+. Howdy, “Landman” fans! I’m Bill, and…
And so if we’re in this united front and there’s different factions, and there’s somebody on fire, one of the factions, you give them the rock, if the main objective is to defeat fascism.…
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election despite an onslaught of commercials…
No one is helping billionaires out quite like Donald Trump. Source link
Granted, the Democrats are out of power, so right now, they can’t do much. But as they make their case heading into 2026 and 2028, asking the voters to return them to power, they need to…
Kamala Harris began her career in public life as a prosecutor. But, to this day, she remains unwilling to place herself in the sights of a real interrogator. On Monday night, ahead of the…
The shiniest, newest path toward salvation, many Democrats believe, is the Abundance movement, which celebrated its second annual conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Though…
How many rebellious movies about ganging up to overthrow the status quo does one need to make before uneasy governments start to put you on some kind of watch list? For Romain Gavras, son…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “Only Murders in the Building” Season 5. “Only Murders” is headed “back to its roots,” as showrunner John…
On Labor Day, hundreds of thousands of protesters are planning to demonstrate against the Trump administration and billionaires “taking over the U.S. government” in more than 1,000…
Having $1 billion isn’t enough these days. To be seen among the richest of the rich, you now need your own private sanctuary. For some, that means a sprawling compound. Increasingly,…
Elon Musk on Monday ramped up his legal feud with OpenAI as his companies filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and Apple accusing both of anticompetitive behavior in the artificial…
Vietnam’s richest man Pham Nhat Vuong is looking to disrupt ride-hailing sectors across South-east Asia as his taxi company Green & Smart Mobility, or GSM, battles Grab Holdings to be the…
Last week, President Donald Trump’s super PAC revealed that it has an unsettling amount of cash on hand for a president who is, his occasional musings to the contrary notwithstanding,…
"What I imagine is going on here is that should this become a new chartered bank … the bank would be providing this ‘cash in, obfuscated crypto out’ type of a product that would allow…
Zohran Mamdani is anti-billionaire. Source link
Fox News’s efforts to make Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani seem like a bad influence for New York City are only making him more appealing. Following Mamdani’s shock win during…
Olin was radicalized in 1972 when the Environmental Protection Agency, created just two years earlier, issued regulations tightening production of the pesticide DDT, of which the Olin…
While there’s a sprawling patchwork of ideas and philosophies powering these visions, three features play a central role, says Adam Becker, a science writer and astrophysicist: an…
LONDON— Health is wealth, and consumers today are investing in their future well-being like never before, according to a new report from Iris Ventures. “Longevity Through Nutrition,”…
LAST week, there was a raft of measures unveiled to spur equities market development here. A S$5 billion equity market development programme is being launched, under which the Monetary…