Billionaires

"If WFP can describe...exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it," the billionaire said on Twitter this Sunday.

America's 745 billionaires are now worth more than $5 trillion combined, up from just under $3 trillion in March 2020.

"Eventually, they run out of other people's money and then they come for you," the Tesla CEO tweeted.

Spanx has become a household name in the shapewear industry, with big names from Kim Kardashian to Karlie Kloss wearing Sara Blakely's invention.

Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) reportedly described the "billionaire tax" proposed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as "a stunt."

The billionaire's tax plan would target America's very richest, likely fewer than 1,000 people, and Democrats are preparing to unveil the proposal within days.

The Treasury Department estimated that $7 trillion will be lost in tax revenue over the next decade.

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO is now the second-wealthiest American with an eye-watering fortune of $170 billion.

Recent findings revealed the fortune of U.S billionaires surged by nearly two-thirds from $3 trillion at the start of the COVID-19 crisis to $4.8 trillion.

A TikTok illustrating a simple graph to show how $2 is "relatively" poor is going viral online

There are 99 billionaires who call New York home; these are the wealthiest among them.

There's an ongoing fight to be at the top in the billionaire club.

Rihanna, real name Robyn Fenty, has not released an album since 2016, but has still built an empire through brands Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty.

The Blue Origin founder wants a NASA contract to help develop a spacecraft that will put humans back on the moon. So far, NASA has only selected SpaceX.

Funk made history when she traveled with Jeff Bezos on his rocket to space on Tuesday.

The Amazon founder's rocket, the New Shepard, will launch on Tuesday, July 20, carrying the youngest and oldest astronauts to fly into space.

Republicans are taking advantage of the Biden administration's refusal to enforce a law designed to make sure stimulus money isn't used for tax breaks.

The billionaire tweeted a photo of him and Elon Musk standing in his kitchen, taken the morning of Branson's inaugural flight to the edge of space.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are among the high-profile executives at the invite-only conference.

Bezos stepped down as CEO of online retail giant Amazon on Monday after 27 years leading the business.

Positive views of capitalism declined by double-digits among young Republicans.

The ominous trend of left-wing billionaires and woke corporations telling us how to think or what to say is only intensifying.

During that same period, inflation caused the federal tipped minimum wage to lose almost half its value.

"Median total compensation for Equilar 200 CEOs was the highest in the study's history, totaling $19.7 million," the Equilar report explained.

"The game is rigged," the former Trump administration official said.

"I continue to believe that the tax code should be changed substantially," Warren Buffett said after it was reported that he paid only 0.1 percent in taxes between 2014 and 2018. "And additionally believe that huge dynastic wealth is not desirable for our society."

"Between them, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate all people in low-income countries 1.3 times," the People's Vaccine Alliance said.

The $1.2 trillion gained by America's wealthiest would be enough for two more payments of $1,400 to every single American with change left to spare.

"This pandemic billionaire wealth surge is a grotesque milestone after three decades of wealth steadily flowing to the top," said Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.

The former president has fallen 298 places in the magazine's ranking of billionaires since last year.