On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Vladimir Potanin faces a new legal battle with his former spouse in a civil suit filed in London. British judges have previously been known to divide a couple’s assets equally in such cases. Potanin is worth around $30 billion, according to Forbes, much of it …
Read More »US billionaire predicts civil war in the country
In his new book, which was published on November 30, the founder of the world’s largest hedge-fund firm wrote that there’s a 30% chance of such an outcome because the rules of governance are being ignored. Pointing to the six stages of the internal order/disorder cycle, which ends in civil …
Read More »Barclays boss resigns over links to billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Financial Conduct Authority investigation
The joint FCA and PRA investigation was launched in late 2019 after emails between Staley and Epstein were handed to the UK watchdogs by their US equivalents. It focused on the chief executive’s “characterisation to the company of his relationship with Mr Epstein and the subsequent description of that relationship …
Read More »New book charts the rise of oddball billionaire Peter Thiel, the mega-nerd who became the most powerful man you’ve never heard of
People are used to strange behaviour from the band of bonkers billionaires who run US tech giants, but the one most people have never heard of, Peter Thiel, is far and away the strangest of them all. The reason most of us aren’t as familiar with Thiel as we are …
Read More »Billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s secret backing of Facebook ‘whistleblower’ raises new questions about her agenda
It’s been revealed by Politico that Haugen, the Facebook ‘whistleblower’ who has generated such intense mainstream attention in recent weeks, receives “behind the scenes” financial assistance from controversial US billionaire Omidyar. The backing is extensive. Omidyar’s Luminate is handling all her press and government relations in Europe, her top public …
Read More »UK partners with billionaire Bill Gates to deploy £400mn green investment package London can’t afford on its own
“We will only achieve our ambitious climate goals if we rapidly scale up new technologies in areas like green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels – technologies that seemed impossible just a few years ago,” the British PM gushed on Tuesday during a speech at a Global Investment Summit in London’s …
Read More »Another bonkers billionaire plans to save mankind, but this woke city of Telosa sounds more like a socialist hell than utopia
There’s nothing creepier than some oddball billionaire planning to build his own utopia where everything’s eco-perfect, life’s a breeze and everyone lives forever, like some ‘Stepford Wives’ meets ‘The Truman Show’ meets ‘Citizen Kane’ hell on Earth. For the truly weird mega-wealthy nerds, like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the …
Read More »In defence of Elon Musk, the woke-riling space billionaire launching the first all-civilian space flight
The phenomenon of the space billionaire is an extremely current spectacle, not possible at any previous time in history. It is among those rare things that can come into existence only from a meeting place of world paradigms: high-rocket technology, finance capital, the internet, and the 24-hour news cycle. However, …
Read More »‘Dystopian nightmare’: Russian tech billionaire Durov slams America’s Apple & Google for ‘censoring’ information on the internet
Durov is a long-time critic of both companies, as well as some of their competitors, such as Facebook’s WhatsApp. He believes they are responsible for the erosion of privacy. “20 years ago, we had decentralized Internet and a relatively unrestricted banking system,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “Today, Apple …
Read More »‘You guys paid for all this’: Internet fumes as billionaire Bezos thanks Amazon employees, customers for funding his trip to space
“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this,” Bezos, donning a cowboy hat and blue astronaut coveralls, said at a press briefing on Tuesday after completing the first manned space mission by his Blue Origin rocket-ship firm. “So seriously, for …
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