What geniuses read: 25 books recommended by Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates

Many influential business people, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, say some of their most important lessons have come from books. Business Insider has put together a list of books recommended by billionaires...

Top 10 Billionaires Who Grew Up Poor

It is not necessary to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to reach great heights in life, although, of course, it helps. Nevertheless, many billionaires of our time at the beginning of their life had very modest financial savings. Go banking rates collected 10 stories ...

At least someone benefited from the pandemic: the top 10 richest people in the world doubled their fortunes

According to the charity Oxfam, the pandemic has made the richest in the world even richer, and the poor have become much more, reports the BBC. The declining incomes of the world's poorest people are causing 21 deaths every day, according to the report. According to Oxfam, since March…

Democrats want to raise taxes for billionaires: how much will Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg have to give

Democrats want to pass a new large tax on billionaires. According to a new analysis, taxes paid by billionaires alone will generate $ 500 billion, of which $ 275 billion will be paid by the 10 richest people in the United States. More details were told by the Business Insider edition. Economist Gabriel Zucman, researcher of inequality and taxes ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Become Billionaires: Their Money Would Be Enough To Inoculate All Poor Countries

At least nine people have become new billionaires since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic thanks to excessive profits from pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines, writes OXFAM. Together, the nine new billionaires have a combined net worth of $ 19,3 billion, which is enough ...

Bill and Melinda Gates announced divorce after 27 years of marriage

Bill and Melinda Gates announced that their 27-year marriage is over, writes Business Insider. On Monday, May 3, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife posted a divorce announcement on Twitter. “After much thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we ...

Who is the richest resident of your state: list of US billionaires

The fact that there are billionaires in almost every state in the United States testifies to the growing wealth of Americans. The country is home to about 800 billionaires out of 330 million people. VisualCapitalist has featured the richest people in every state in the United States. The richest of the richest Billionaires ...

Freeze $ 1,5 billion: how US sanctions affected the life and business of the Russian oligarch

The owner of the Renova group, Viktor Vekselberg, told Forbes how he reacted to the sanctions imposed against him by the US Treasury, about his interest in the Jewish topic and how he acquired the famous Faberge collection from the family of American media tycoon Malcolm Forbes. Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg ...

'It's time to fork out': Sanders proposed a new income tax during the pandemic

Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, who was seeking the nomination from the US Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential election, proposed introducing a 60% tax on the wealth gains of billionaires during the pandemic, writes Voice of America. Sanders proposes to use the funds received in this way so that within a year...

More than 60% of the world's inhabitants: how much money do all billionaires

All the world's dollar billionaires (2153 in total) collectively own more money than the 4,6 billion poorest people on earth. Such data are cited in a new study by the company Oxfam, specializing in the fight against poverty, writes Meduza. The study authors also noted that the 22 richest people in the world ...

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