Billionaires

Billionaires

Mark Ruffalo and Brian Eno have called for higher taxes for the rich. Composite: Getty images/The Guardian

Nearly 400 wealthy individuals call for higher taxes on the super-rich

Signatories, including Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno, and Abigail Disney, said extreme wealth is “polluting politics,” driving social exclusion, and worsening the climate emergency

Mark Zuckerberg led the way, losing $17.9 billion, and Jeff Bezos wasn’t far behind, with his net worth declining by $15.9 billion. File Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo/Bloomberg

Billionaires poised to lose near half-trillion dollars in 2 days

Illustration: Collected

Billionaire wealth surges three times faster by $2 trillion in 2024: Oxfam

Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal court in New York on May 30, 2024. Photographer: Justin Lane/EPA/Bloomberg

Wall Street billionaires are rushing to back Trump, verdict be damned

Booming investment.Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg

Billionaires' dreams of green energy exports will never work

Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko attends a session during the Week of Russian Business, organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), in Moscow, Russia February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Russian billionaires see wealth rise to over half a trillion dollars, Forbes Russia reports

Gautam Adani, center.Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

Billionaires from Hong Kong to Arkansas exposed to Adani crash

Illustration: TBS

Bangladeshi billionaires: Where art thou?

Meet 5 of the world’s youngest billionaires

Meet 5 of the world’s youngest billionaires

Representational Image. The Dilbar, a luxury yacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, sails in the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, 29 May, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Russia billionaires move superyachts to Maldives as sanctions tighten, data shows

Billionaires embrace crypto in case money ‘goes to hell’

Billionaires embrace crypto in case money ‘goes to hell’

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google, show the new G1 phone running Google's Android software in New York September 23, 2008. Reuters

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin join the centibillionaires club

A general view of a snow-covered landscape as the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues in the Alpine resort of St Moritz, Switzerland, January 18, 2021. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo

In 2020 the ultra-rich got richer. Now they're bracing for the backlash