Wealth

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has been surging in Democratic presidential polls, has been softening her attacks on the rich and could win the White House, a billionaire investment titan and major Democratic donor told CNBC on Thursday. “I think she’s pivoting. I think she could win the election because she’s smart, she’s witty and she

A visual representation of bitcoin S3studio | Getty Images The rapid pace of technological change provides a breathtaking opportunity to challenge and change the world. We are moving toward a technology space that is swift, connected and digitized. This will not only reshape industries but also the regulatory frameworks around them. With this in mind,

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back in Washington this week arguing for libra, the digital currency his company created. This, after he last week made the case in front of an audience at Georgetown University that Facebook’s future, its past and its reason for being are all tied up in free speech. So, what’s at

Leon Cooperman at the 2019 Delivering Alpa conference in New York on Sept. 19. 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman isn’t holding back anything regarding his feelings about Elizabeth Warren‘s presidential platform. Like many of her fellow Democrats vying for the party’s nomination, the Massachusetts senator has railed against the uber-rich like

Tiffany Advent Calendar Source: Tiffany&Co. Have a holly, jolly six-figure Christmas. As the countdown to the holiday season begins, Tiffany & Co. is offering branded advent calendars  — with a steep price tag. Each Tiffany-blue, 24-day calendar will set you back $112,000.  The luxury jewelry retailer released four exclusive “Ultimate Advent Calendars” that will include

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, wearing green tie at left, leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on April 3, 2019. Pat Greenhouse | Boston Globe | Getty Images Massachusetts prosecutors announced Tuesday that they are levying new charges against 11 of the 15 parents implicated in the “Varsity

Tech just can’t get away from politics. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has a bone to pick with Facebook, mainly its standards for political ads. After Facebook refused to take down a Trump campaign ad that accused him of wrongdoing connected to his son Hunter’s work in Ukraine, Warren fired back. She posted her own Facebook

Getty Images The number of millionaires in the world grew to nearly 47 million over the past year, and they now own close to half of the world’s wealth, according to a new study. Despite the trade wars, slowing global growth and the volatile stock markets, the total number of millionaires in the world increased

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, one of the economic pillars of the Democratic establishment, lashed out at the idea of a wealth tax, saying it was bad economics, bad policy and built on bad data. Speaking at a Peterson Institute panel on inequality in Washington on Thursday, Summers said that the type of wealth tax

Kzenon | Getty Images If Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos were to unexpectedly die today, Washington state could expect an estate tax windfall of nearly $12 billion, raising its total annual revenue by more than 50% for a single year. That’s according to a new study on the costs and benefits of an estate tax to

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images We are tasked today with making many financial decisions, from managing our student loans to contributing to retirement accounts. Plus there’s paying credit card debt on time and keeping our credit score as high as possible. All of these are important, because our financial future is

Barry Sternlicht, co-founder of the privately held Starwood Capital global investment firm, believes a wealth tax, as envisioned by Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, would not be feasible. “I think it’s a crazy idea,” Sternlicht said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday. The wealth tax from Sanders, a Vermont democratic socialist, would

Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman slammed Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on their proposals to put an additional tax on the richest Americans. “Stop portraying billionaires as criminals,” Cooperman said on CNBC on Wednesday, the morning after Warren and Sanders in the latest Democratic debate cast themselves as the hardliners on tacking wealth

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images There are 618,000 millennial millionaires in the U.S. and their wealth is only expected to grow. Millennials are expected to be five times wealthier in the next decade than they are

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. Win McNamee | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren may have a new slogan: “Where’s the beef?” During

The ideal tax rate for the richest 1% of Americans is about 75% — more than twice the current rates, according to the economist advising Sen. Elizabeth Warren on her tax plans. Gabriel Zucman, the University of California at Berkeley economist who is advising Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders on their wealth tax proposals, told

Any average millionaire or billionaire can buy a Ferrari. But only a select group gets the privilege of buying a fully customized one — an honor that is becoming big business for the Italian carmaker. Ferrari this month opened its third “tailor made center” in the world, a 6,600-square-foot showroom on Manhattan’s Park Avenue that

John Hope Bryant, an advocate of economic empowerment through Operation Hope, wants Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to know that he would not have been successful without capitalism. “I think Bernie and Elizabeth mean well,” Bryant said on CNBC on Monday, regarding their criticism of how capitalism has led to

It’s hard to save money these days. Interest rates are really low, which is great if you’re borrowing to buy a house or a car, but not ideal if you’re looking to save. The interest rate for the typical U.S. savings account is .09%, for example. But, a group of tech companies, including Credit Karma,

The Royal Mint’s Raris payment card is made from 18-karat gold. The Royal Mint Britain’s Royal Mint has produced a solid gold payment card — and you’ll need to fork out £18,750 ($23,460) to buy one. The government-owned company, responsible for minting coins for the U.K., said it partnered up with Mastercard and payments technology