Bill Gates Chesnot/Getty Images Bill Gates is not taking a defensive approach with his billions of dollars of wealth. The founder of Microsoft added $16 billion to his net worth this year, despite giving away over $35 billion to charity, according to Bloomberg. That brings Gates’ total wealth to $106 billion, the second largest fortune
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French economist Thomas Piketty poses during a photo session in Paris on September 10, 2019. Joel Sagat | AFP | Getty Images A popular French economist says billionaires are harmful to economic growth and would be effectively abolished under his tax plan, according to an interview. Thomas Piketty, whose 2013 book on inequality, “Capital in
Apple‘s iPhone extravaganza is still the biggest product event of the year for a simple reason: The iPhone remains the single most successful hardware product of the PC era. So what happened this week? Three new iPhones were announced: The iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max. A new Apple Watch with a screen
T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter “Oracle of Oil,” hedge fund founder and philanthropist who rewrote the playbook for corporate raiders, has died. He was 91. He died Wednesday of natural causes. Pickens had been in declining health, suffering from a series of strokes and a serious fall in 2017. In late 2017, he put his
Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 Source: Lamborghini Fans of the famous flux capacitor in 1985 movie “Back to the Future” will love the new Lamborghini. The Italian automaker unveiled its fastest car ever Tuesday morning at the Frankfurt Motor Show — a geometric fantasy of speed and engineering called the Sian FKP37. It is the company’s
Source: TCS World Travel There’s luxury travel and then there’s super-luxury travel. And by any measure, touring the world on a specially outfitted private jet with 15 to 50 like-minded passengers, all on the same financial playing field, falls into the “ultra-luxe” category. For well-to-do, worldly travelers with destinations and experiences still on their bucket
As U.S. colleges and universities brace for a drop in high-paying Chinese students this fall, one university has discovered a potential hedge: insurance. The University of Illinois’s Gies College of Business and its Grainer College of Engineering took out an insurance policy two years ago to protect the schools from a possible drop in revenue
The National Football League was on the brink last year. Not of death, but of the type of loss of relevance that has humbled baseball and boxing over the past generation or so. Now as the NFL’s 100th season kicks off this week, there’s a sense of fresh energy. But if football’s going to make
Lamborghini Sián Source: Lamborghini Ahead of its official Frankfurt Auto show debut, Lamborghini has revealed the Sian, the Italian supercar maker’s first hybrid vehicle. Sian means flash of lightning in the Sant’Agata automaker’s Bolognese Italian dialect — an apt name for a car that’s also the company’s most powerful creation. The Sian’s heart is the
Bugatti Chiron Source: Bugatti Bugatti became the first car maker to top 300 mph, when a modified version of its hypercar hit 304.77 mph. A Bugatti Chiron, adapted for higher speeds and driven by Andy Wallace, hit the top speed on Volkwagen‘s Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany on Aug. 2. It is the first supercar