billionaires

Billionaires’ space race: Bezos’ Blue Origin dunks on Branson’s Virgin Galactic ahead of crewed flight, saying it doesn’t count

The company of former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted a couple of infographics favorably comparing its primary craft to the…

3 years ago

China’s crackdown on Didi following its Wall St IPO shows that billionaires don’t run the show in Beijing – unlike in Washington

When a video of Mark Zuckerberg went viral on the internet showing the Facebook tycoon riding an electric surfboard while…

3 years ago

The switched-on, censorious billionaires of Silicon Valley are now the greatest threat to free speech and the pursuit of truth

If anyone still naively believes that Facebook is a force for good and not the vanguard of the elite’s pacification…

3 years ago

‘Obscene to put profits before saving lives’: 9 new Big Pharma billionaires emerge amid Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Much of the scientific research that went into the creation of effective vaccines against Covid-19 was paid for by taxpayer…

3 years ago

Billionaires like Bill Gates won’t save us from Covid, or fix fake news or the climate crisis. Because it’s not in their interests

Billionaires. Our society has a complicated relationship with these folks since their mere existence at a time of record inequality…

3 years ago

Energy billionaires became $51 billion richer from 2021 oil rally

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people, US oil tycoon Harold Hamm saw…

3 years ago

Two shocking headlines that sum up Covid: Billionaires MADE $3.9 trillion during the pandemic, while workers LOST $3.7 trillion

In a simple comparison, two headlines seem to say it all about the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis: the…

3 years ago

Aussie billionaires get 50% RICHER amid Covid. I’m not applauding; Australia is now even more divided into haves & have-nots

Rich lists are a funny thing – they never really give you a warm, fuzzy feeling. Quite the opposite in…

3 years ago

Billionaires’ ‘pandemic profits’ alone could pay for $3K stimulus checks to EVERY American – report

Over the last nine months, the 651 billionaires who call the US home have increased their wealth by a whopping…

3 years ago

Billionaires’ wealth tops $10.2 TRILLION as millions struggle amid pandemic

According to the research, their wealth grew by 27.5 percent at the height of the crisis, from April to July,…

4 years ago