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 ...

Divorce, donations, bad investments: the biggest losses of billionaires in 2019

The reasons for the financial losses were different. In one case, this is a divorce, in another - an unsuccessful corporatization, in the third - a desire to give more money to charity, notes RBC. Forbes magazine, summing up the results of the year, named billionaires who this year for various reasons ...

Bill Gates lost second place in the list of the richest people on the planet

Forbes named the businessman who overtook Bill Gates in the list of the richest people in the world. The fortune of the head of the LVMH corporation, Bernard Arnault, is estimated at $ 107 billion, he came into second place in the ranking, moving Gates to third, writes TASS. Head of the corporation for production and ...

Good deal: how an immigrant from Odessa became a billionaire in the USA

We are talking about a native of Ukraine, Vlad Shmunis, who moved to the United States with his family in the 1970s. He became a dollar billionaire thanks to the deal of his startup RingCentral with the American company Avaya. Odessa-born entrepreneur Vlad Shmunis became a dollar billionaire thanks to the recent ...

Suffers losses: over the years of the presidency, Trump fell to 119 positions in the Forbes list

During the years of his presidency, Donald Trump has lost 119 positions in the Forbes ranking. For the past two years, according to the magazine, the state of the US president has not changed, but he still lost 16 positions in a year. The fortune of US President Donald Trump, according to Forbes, is the second ...

Where billionaires live: New York tops the top 10 of the richest cities in the world

551 of the 2153 members of the 2019 Forbes Billionaires List live in just ten cities around the world. The richest people on the planet have a combined wealth of $ 2,3 trillion, more than the GDP of all but seven countries in the world. What is it…

Named US city with the largest concentration of billionaires per capita

San Francisco has been named the city with the largest concentration of billionaires per capita. This is stated in a study by Wealth-X, writes Money. According to the data, there is one billionaire out of every 11 people in San Francisco. In New York, the second largest city, at 612 81 ...

Richard Branson almost died at the opening of his center in Miami. VIDEO

Billionaire Virgin Group founder Richard Branson nearly died when he opened his company Virgin Miami Central. Branson stated that this was the 77th moment in his life that he was on the verge of death. During the solemn ceremony on ...

The woman became the youngest billionaire in history: Forbes rating

The problems of the world economy have not spared the richest people on the planet: over the past year, billionaires have diminished, especially in Asia, and their total fortune has decreased by $ 400 billion, according to the annual Forbes ranking. The publication also notes that 21-year-old Jenner became the youngest ...

What billionaires save

The generally accepted ideas about the beautiful life of the rich do not always correspond to reality. Luxury yachts, handcrafted cars, private islands, business jets, palaces with servants and 100-year-old wines delivered from France are often just fantasies. Many bigwigs of the American and European ...

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