#Billionaires

Eighty or so donors have given over $333 million to Building a Better California, records show, making it among the best-funded political efforts in California history.

It is essential not just to fund the public goods the nation needs, it is indispensable to restore a sense of fairness

Tech billionaires have raised more than $300m to oppose the billionaire tax proposal.

Asia’s young, self-made billionaires are a decade younger than their American and European peers. Having made their fortunes in tech and crypto—and with larger risk appetites than the “old money” rich—Asia’s nouveau riche manage their wealth very…

Voters are about to decide if the mega-rich among them should hand over billions of dollars to pay for improvements to healthcare.

TL;DR: Silicon Valley billionaires are spending over $500 million through AI and crypto PACs to buy influence across both parties and push for corporate-run states as our next sociatal structure.…

r/technology 20h ago u/SadAd8761 As billionaires fight a tax hike, Jensen Huang says paying $8 billion is a ‘privilege’: ‘I’m just afraid of being poor’ Society fortune.com As billionaires flee the Golden State, the Nvidia cofounder says he’s happy to…

A majority of Americans blame billionaires for the nation's ever-growing income and wealth divide. But economists Eric Zwick and Owen Zidar say there's a much larger but little-known cadre of very rich folks who may be even more important in closing the…

Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and education

California voters face a November decision on a 5% one-time wealth tax targeting billionaires for $100 billion in revenue. NBER research shows the levy is modest against recent 144% wealth growth yet significant versus current 0.2% effective rates.…

This ‘ghost GDP’ shows how headline economic growth is increasingly disconnected from reality for most, says report

Taking more money from Elon Musk won’t fix the government incompetency that got us here in the first place, but it does undermine the innovators that make our economy the largest in the world.

Incline Village on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe has seen an influx of ultra wealthy Californians fleeing the state’s proposed billionaires tax.

One of billionaire Stephen Cloobeck’s alleged victims says he received threatening telephone calls from an unknown number in January.

From Nypost RSS Feed: Stephen Cloobeck’s scandal-clad rise to riches — after flop governor run as ‘Donald of the Democrats’

Eccentric billionaire Stephen Cloobeck’s friends and acquaintances tried to warn him to break off the relationship with his alleged honeytrapper fiancée long before he was arrested.

Typical: Socialist AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.

From Nypost RSS Feed: Insiders release details of billionaire playboy Stephen Cloobeck’s arrest — and the extent of his alleged crimes

No wonder they are upset by the slogan ‘tax the rich’. Despite their wealth increasing 81% since 2020, they need our emotional support now more than ever, writes Arwa Mahdawi