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Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:07 pm
(December 2, 2015) Why a German billionaire says that pledges like Mark Zuckerberg’s are really bad
The private foundation is an especially American style of charitable giving.
Nonprofit groups in the United States play a disproportionately large role in public life,
in part because American tax laws make it attractive for the rich to donate.
Much of their wealth could otherwise be captured by capital gains and estate taxes.
German shipping magnate Peter Krämer is one of the most vocal detractors of the pledge, and the American tradition of government-sponsored charity.
Krämer: I find the US initiative highly problematic. You can write donations off in your taxes to a large degree in the USA.
So the rich make a choice: Would I rather donate or pay taxes?
The donors are taking the place of the state. That's unacceptable.
SPIEGEL: But doesn't the money that is donated serve the common good?
Krämer: It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires.
So it's not the state that determines what is good for the people, but rather the rich want to decide.
That's a development that I find really bad. What legitimacy do these people have to decide where massive sums of money will flow?
SPIEGEL: It is their money at the end of the day.
Krämer: In this case, 40 superwealthy people want to decide what their money will be used for.
That runs counter to the democratically legitimate state.
In the end the billionaires are indulging in hobbies that might be in the common good, but are very personal.
(March 6, 2018) What if billionaires could live forever?
Several billionaires, most of them Californians, have been funding firms involved in developing life-extension technologies.
What if they succeed? What if billionaires alive today live indefinitely and get ever richer?
Diamandis and Hariri's new venture is the latest example of a well-established phenomenon in Silicon Valley:
Extremely wealthy techno-optimists have for years been funding biomedical R&D companies meant to achieve immortality for their funders.
Some of the more recognizable names who have been putting money into such efforts: Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle),
Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google), Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon), and Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
Palantir, by the way, is a "big-data" company that uses algorithms to scan huge datasets for patterns.
It does a lot of work for US government intelligence agencies. Thiel is a radical corporate libertarian, and Silicon Valley's best-known Donald Trump supporter.
In late February, Diamandis wrote to subscribers of his email bulletin: "I asked the smartest people I know for their tech predictions for the next 20 years (2018 – 2038).
What are the breakthroughs we can expect on our countdown to the Singularity?" One of the predictions he listed was that by 2030, "humanity will have achieved Longevity Escape Velocity for the wealthiest."
(July 5, 2018) Survival of the Richest
"..Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage,
I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world.
They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.
Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked,
“How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down."
The private foundation is an especially American style of charitable giving.
Nonprofit groups in the United States play a disproportionately large role in public life,
in part because American tax laws make it attractive for the rich to donate.
Much of their wealth could otherwise be captured by capital gains and estate taxes.
German shipping magnate Peter Krämer is one of the most vocal detractors of the pledge, and the American tradition of government-sponsored charity.
Krämer: I find the US initiative highly problematic. You can write donations off in your taxes to a large degree in the USA.
So the rich make a choice: Would I rather donate or pay taxes?
The donors are taking the place of the state. That's unacceptable.
SPIEGEL: But doesn't the money that is donated serve the common good?
Krämer: It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires.
So it's not the state that determines what is good for the people, but rather the rich want to decide.
That's a development that I find really bad. What legitimacy do these people have to decide where massive sums of money will flow?
SPIEGEL: It is their money at the end of the day.
Krämer: In this case, 40 superwealthy people want to decide what their money will be used for.
That runs counter to the democratically legitimate state.
In the end the billionaires are indulging in hobbies that might be in the common good, but are very personal.
(March 6, 2018) What if billionaires could live forever?
Several billionaires, most of them Californians, have been funding firms involved in developing life-extension technologies.
What if they succeed? What if billionaires alive today live indefinitely and get ever richer?
Diamandis and Hariri's new venture is the latest example of a well-established phenomenon in Silicon Valley:
Extremely wealthy techno-optimists have for years been funding biomedical R&D companies meant to achieve immortality for their funders.
Some of the more recognizable names who have been putting money into such efforts: Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle),
Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google), Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon), and Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
Palantir, by the way, is a "big-data" company that uses algorithms to scan huge datasets for patterns.
It does a lot of work for US government intelligence agencies. Thiel is a radical corporate libertarian, and Silicon Valley's best-known Donald Trump supporter.
In late February, Diamandis wrote to subscribers of his email bulletin: "I asked the smartest people I know for their tech predictions for the next 20 years (2018 – 2038).
What are the breakthroughs we can expect on our countdown to the Singularity?" One of the predictions he listed was that by 2030, "humanity will have achieved Longevity Escape Velocity for the wealthiest."
(July 5, 2018) Survival of the Richest
"..Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage,
I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world.
They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.
Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked,
“How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down."
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:10 pm
(May 22, 2020) What’s up with billionaires bunkering down in New Zealand?
The Independent recently reported that “wealthy Americans are fleeing the US
for multi-million dollar private bunkers around the world and luxury real estate in New Zealand
to wait out the COVID-19 pandemic among other ‘elites’ and billionaires.
But, why New Zealand? This is where things get very interesting
and I’d encourage you to read the full (long read) article published by Mark O’Connell for The Guardian in 2018.
O’Connell focuses on Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook,
as a symbolic figure of those who consider New Zealand to be “the Future”.
He is largely inspired by the obscure libertarian manifesto,
‘The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State’.
(June 8, 2020) Since the pandemic began, American billionaires made an extra half a trillion dollars
The richest Americans continue to get richer, while 21 million Americans are on unemployment.
As millions of unemployed Americans bear the brunt of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic,
U.S. billionaires have seen the opposite: a massive accumulation of wealth.
The total amount of wealth controlled by U.S. billionaires’ swelled by more than $565 billion
since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
The divide becomes even more stark when looking at specific billionaire’s gains.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth is up $36.2 billion since March 18, even as Amazon faces criticism
for how the company has treated its essential workers and its hollow response to the protests against police brutality
that clearly clashes with the company’s actions.
Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth is up by $30.1 billion, at the same time that Facebook has flubbed fact-checking
and Facebook employees complain loudly about that inaction.
(June 12, 2020) Over the past 3 months, 44 million US workers filed for unemployment while billionaires got $637 billion richer
Between March 18 and June 11, total US billionaire wealth grew by $637 billion, from $2.95 trillion to $3.58 trillion — a 21.5% increase.
Their overall wealth skyrocketed by at least $72 billion this week alone.
In that same 12-week period, more than 44 million US workers filed for unemployment,
with 1.5 million claims filed in the last week alone. Forbes reported in its annual survey,
published April 7, that total US billionaire wealth had declined from its 2019 levels.
However, IPS said those losses were recovered within weeks.
According to Forbes, the US is home to 623 billionaires, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, investor Warren Buffett, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
(September 18, 2020) Billionaire wealth grew by $845 billion, or 29%, as America struggled through first six months of pandemic
Between March 18—the rough start date of the pandemic shutdown,
when most federal and state economic restrictions were in place—and Sept. 15,
the total net worth of the nation’s billionaires rose from $2.95 trillion to $3.8 trillion.
In fact, this billionaires’ bonanza occurred against a general backdrop of working-class pain:
- 6.6 million Americans got coronavirus, and almost 200,000 died from it.
- Over 50 million Americans lost jobs, with nearly 14 million still unemployed.
- 30 million are collecting unemployment benefits (counting contract workers), up from 1.6 million a year earlier.
- Nearly 30 million Americans have gone hungry.
- 12 million Americans have lost employee-sponsored health insurance.
- Big swathes of business have shut down, including 100,000 restaurants.
(October 20, 2020) U.S. Billionaires Wealth Surges $931 Billion since Beginning of Pandemic
Between March 18 – the rough start of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — and October 13, the total wealth of 644 U.S. billionaires
increased from $2.95 trillion to $3.88 trillion, a rise of 31.6 percent.
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 220,000 Americans
and destroyed the health, wealth and livelihood of millions of households.
- Jeff Bezos’s wealth grew from $113 billion on March 18 to $203 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 80 percent.
- Elon Musk’s wealth has more than tripled since the beginning of the pandemic, from $24.6 billion on March 18 to $92.8 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 277 percent.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth grew from $54.7 billion on March 18 to $101 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 85 percent.
- Zoom’s Eric Yaun wasn’t even a billionaire in 2019. Now is wealth is over $22 billion, an increase of over 300 percent since March 18th.
- Steve Ballmer, a major owner of Microsoft and its TEAMS video conferencing, has seen his wealth increase by $22 billion since March 18, an increase of 43.4 percent.
- Dan Gilbert, chairman of Quicken Loans, saw his wealth rocket by 656 percent, to $49.2 billion from $6.5 billion 7 months earlier.
(October 20, 2020) China's super rich got $1.5 trillion richer during pandemic: Report
- Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce titan Alibaba, once again topped the list
after his wealth surged a whopping 45 per cent to $58.8 billion
as online shopping firms saw a surge in business owing to people being shut indoors
for months during strict lockdowns to contain the virus.
An extra 257 people also joined the billionaires club in the world's number-two economy by August,
following two years of shrinking membership, according to the closely watched Hurun Report.
The country now has a total of 878 billionaires.
(November 20, 2020) Billionaires' net worths climbed by almost $1 trillion during the pandemic while their workers were put at risk
A report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focuses on 12 billionaires who saw their fortunes skyrocket
during the pandemic, while thousands of workers from their companies fell ill or did not receive hazard pay.
From March 2020 to November 2020, billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth.
But, as the report outlines, those profits may come at the expense of the essential workers they employ.
For instance, John H. Tyson, the owner of Tyson Foods, has made over $600 million during this timeframe.
The family member of a Tyson employee who died of COVID-19 is suing the company for wrongful death
and claiming that a plant manager organized an office pool in April on how many workers would get infected.
Iowa's News Now reported that Tyson suspended the employees
named in the lawsuit and began an internal investigation,
led by former Attorney General Eric Holder.
(December 28, 2020) Top 10 richest people in world in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread layoffs across sectors,
the world's richest people have collectively gained 23 per cent or $1.3 trillion
since the year began, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed.
1. Jeff Bezos
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet with a total net worth of $187 billion.
Bezos' net worth climbed $72.4 billion during the year, helped by the boost
given to markets by unprecedented stimulus efforts by governments and central bankers.
Amazon is one of the four companies whose valuations have crossed $1 trillion.
The others include Microsoft, Apple and Google.
2. Elon Musk
Tesla Inc co-founder Elon Musk surpassed Bill Gates to become the world's second richest person.
The 49-year-old entrepreneur's net worth soared to $167 billion.
Musk has added $167 billion to his net worth this year, the most of anyone on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Musk's ranking improved from 35 in the beginning of the year to 2nd in 10 months.
3. Bill Gates
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates slipped to the third position in the current year.
This is the second time in the history of the index that Gates is ranked lower than No. 2.
Bill Gates held the top spot for years before being bumped by Jeff Bezos in 2017.
At present, his total net worth is $131 billion.
4. Bernard Arnault
The French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault's wealth plummeted during the initial pandemic days.
However, demand for some luxury goods has seen a rebound in recent months.
Consequently, Bernard holds the fourth spot in the list with a net worth of $110 billion.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest centibillionaire (people whose wealth exceeds $100 billion)
in Bloomberg billionaires list. With a total net worth of $105 billion, he holds the fifth position.
Two years ago, Jeff Bezos was the only centibillionaire in the world but today there are five.
6. Warren Buffett
Buffett's net worth dropped by about $4.09 billion.
However, he still remains the sixth richest person in the world with a total net worth of $85.2 billion.
The economic impact of the pandemic hit Berkshire's wide range of investments
and the company had to sell its entire stake in four major US airlines.
7. Larry Page
With a total net worth of $81.4 billion, Google co-founder Larry Page secured the seventh position
in Bloomberg Billionaires index. Page is a co-founder of Alphabet,
the holding company for Google, the world's largest search-engine operator.
8. Larry Ellison
The chairman and co-founder of software giant Oracle, Larry Ellison is the eighth richest man in the world with a net worth of $79.7 billion.
He owns about a third of the Redwood City, California-based company as well as a stake in Tesla,
a sailing team, the Indian Wells tennis event and real estate, including Hawaii's Lanai island.
9. Steve Ballmer
Former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer is the ninth richest man globally with a wealth of $79.1 billion.
Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates as an employee at Microsoft in the year 1980.
He eventually became the company's president in 1998 and replaced Gates as CEO in 2000.
10. Sergey Brin
With a net worth of $78.8 billion, Sergey Brin is the tenth richest man of 2020. He co-founded Alphabet,
the holding company that owns Google, with Larry page in 1998.
Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet in December 2019
but continues to be a controller shareholder and board member.
The Independent recently reported that “wealthy Americans are fleeing the US
for multi-million dollar private bunkers around the world and luxury real estate in New Zealand
to wait out the COVID-19 pandemic among other ‘elites’ and billionaires.
But, why New Zealand? This is where things get very interesting
and I’d encourage you to read the full (long read) article published by Mark O’Connell for The Guardian in 2018.
O’Connell focuses on Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook,
as a symbolic figure of those who consider New Zealand to be “the Future”.
He is largely inspired by the obscure libertarian manifesto,
‘The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State’.
(June 8, 2020) Since the pandemic began, American billionaires made an extra half a trillion dollars
The richest Americans continue to get richer, while 21 million Americans are on unemployment.
As millions of unemployed Americans bear the brunt of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic,
U.S. billionaires have seen the opposite: a massive accumulation of wealth.
The total amount of wealth controlled by U.S. billionaires’ swelled by more than $565 billion
since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.
The divide becomes even more stark when looking at specific billionaire’s gains.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth is up $36.2 billion since March 18, even as Amazon faces criticism
for how the company has treated its essential workers and its hollow response to the protests against police brutality
that clearly clashes with the company’s actions.
Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth is up by $30.1 billion, at the same time that Facebook has flubbed fact-checking
and Facebook employees complain loudly about that inaction.
(June 12, 2020) Over the past 3 months, 44 million US workers filed for unemployment while billionaires got $637 billion richer
Between March 18 and June 11, total US billionaire wealth grew by $637 billion, from $2.95 trillion to $3.58 trillion — a 21.5% increase.
Their overall wealth skyrocketed by at least $72 billion this week alone.
In that same 12-week period, more than 44 million US workers filed for unemployment,
with 1.5 million claims filed in the last week alone. Forbes reported in its annual survey,
published April 7, that total US billionaire wealth had declined from its 2019 levels.
However, IPS said those losses were recovered within weeks.
According to Forbes, the US is home to 623 billionaires, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, investor Warren Buffett, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
(September 18, 2020) Billionaire wealth grew by $845 billion, or 29%, as America struggled through first six months of pandemic
Between March 18—the rough start date of the pandemic shutdown,
when most federal and state economic restrictions were in place—and Sept. 15,
the total net worth of the nation’s billionaires rose from $2.95 trillion to $3.8 trillion.
In fact, this billionaires’ bonanza occurred against a general backdrop of working-class pain:
- 6.6 million Americans got coronavirus, and almost 200,000 died from it.
- Over 50 million Americans lost jobs, with nearly 14 million still unemployed.
- 30 million are collecting unemployment benefits (counting contract workers), up from 1.6 million a year earlier.
- Nearly 30 million Americans have gone hungry.
- 12 million Americans have lost employee-sponsored health insurance.
- Big swathes of business have shut down, including 100,000 restaurants.
(October 20, 2020) U.S. Billionaires Wealth Surges $931 Billion since Beginning of Pandemic
Between March 18 – the rough start of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — and October 13, the total wealth of 644 U.S. billionaires
increased from $2.95 trillion to $3.88 trillion, a rise of 31.6 percent.
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 220,000 Americans
and destroyed the health, wealth and livelihood of millions of households.
- Jeff Bezos’s wealth grew from $113 billion on March 18 to $203 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 80 percent.
- Elon Musk’s wealth has more than tripled since the beginning of the pandemic, from $24.6 billion on March 18 to $92.8 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 277 percent.
- Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth grew from $54.7 billion on March 18 to $101 billion on Oct. 13, an increase of 85 percent.
- Zoom’s Eric Yaun wasn’t even a billionaire in 2019. Now is wealth is over $22 billion, an increase of over 300 percent since March 18th.
- Steve Ballmer, a major owner of Microsoft and its TEAMS video conferencing, has seen his wealth increase by $22 billion since March 18, an increase of 43.4 percent.
- Dan Gilbert, chairman of Quicken Loans, saw his wealth rocket by 656 percent, to $49.2 billion from $6.5 billion 7 months earlier.
(October 20, 2020) China's super rich got $1.5 trillion richer during pandemic: Report
- Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce titan Alibaba, once again topped the list
after his wealth surged a whopping 45 per cent to $58.8 billion
as online shopping firms saw a surge in business owing to people being shut indoors
for months during strict lockdowns to contain the virus.
An extra 257 people also joined the billionaires club in the world's number-two economy by August,
following two years of shrinking membership, according to the closely watched Hurun Report.
The country now has a total of 878 billionaires.
(November 20, 2020) Billionaires' net worths climbed by almost $1 trillion during the pandemic while their workers were put at risk
A report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) focuses on 12 billionaires who saw their fortunes skyrocket
during the pandemic, while thousands of workers from their companies fell ill or did not receive hazard pay.
From March 2020 to November 2020, billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth.
But, as the report outlines, those profits may come at the expense of the essential workers they employ.
For instance, John H. Tyson, the owner of Tyson Foods, has made over $600 million during this timeframe.
The family member of a Tyson employee who died of COVID-19 is suing the company for wrongful death
and claiming that a plant manager organized an office pool in April on how many workers would get infected.
Iowa's News Now reported that Tyson suspended the employees
named in the lawsuit and began an internal investigation,
led by former Attorney General Eric Holder.
(December 28, 2020) Top 10 richest people in world in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread layoffs across sectors,
the world's richest people have collectively gained 23 per cent or $1.3 trillion
since the year began, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed.
1. Jeff Bezos
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet with a total net worth of $187 billion.
Bezos' net worth climbed $72.4 billion during the year, helped by the boost
given to markets by unprecedented stimulus efforts by governments and central bankers.
Amazon is one of the four companies whose valuations have crossed $1 trillion.
The others include Microsoft, Apple and Google.
2. Elon Musk
Tesla Inc co-founder Elon Musk surpassed Bill Gates to become the world's second richest person.
The 49-year-old entrepreneur's net worth soared to $167 billion.
Musk has added $167 billion to his net worth this year, the most of anyone on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Musk's ranking improved from 35 in the beginning of the year to 2nd in 10 months.
3. Bill Gates
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates slipped to the third position in the current year.
This is the second time in the history of the index that Gates is ranked lower than No. 2.
Bill Gates held the top spot for years before being bumped by Jeff Bezos in 2017.
At present, his total net worth is $131 billion.
4. Bernard Arnault
The French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault's wealth plummeted during the initial pandemic days.
However, demand for some luxury goods has seen a rebound in recent months.
Consequently, Bernard holds the fourth spot in the list with a net worth of $110 billion.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest centibillionaire (people whose wealth exceeds $100 billion)
in Bloomberg billionaires list. With a total net worth of $105 billion, he holds the fifth position.
Two years ago, Jeff Bezos was the only centibillionaire in the world but today there are five.
6. Warren Buffett
Buffett's net worth dropped by about $4.09 billion.
However, he still remains the sixth richest person in the world with a total net worth of $85.2 billion.
The economic impact of the pandemic hit Berkshire's wide range of investments
and the company had to sell its entire stake in four major US airlines.
7. Larry Page
With a total net worth of $81.4 billion, Google co-founder Larry Page secured the seventh position
in Bloomberg Billionaires index. Page is a co-founder of Alphabet,
the holding company for Google, the world's largest search-engine operator.
8. Larry Ellison
The chairman and co-founder of software giant Oracle, Larry Ellison is the eighth richest man in the world with a net worth of $79.7 billion.
He owns about a third of the Redwood City, California-based company as well as a stake in Tesla,
a sailing team, the Indian Wells tennis event and real estate, including Hawaii's Lanai island.
9. Steve Ballmer
Former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer is the ninth richest man globally with a wealth of $79.1 billion.
Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates as an employee at Microsoft in the year 1980.
He eventually became the company's president in 1998 and replaced Gates as CEO in 2000.
10. Sergey Brin
With a net worth of $78.8 billion, Sergey Brin is the tenth richest man of 2020. He co-founded Alphabet,
the holding company that owns Google, with Larry page in 1998.
Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet in December 2019
but continues to be a controller shareholder and board member.
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:46 pm
(January 6, 2021) Elon Musk Surpasses Jeff Bezos to Become World’s Richest Person
Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet.
The South Africa-born engineer’s net worth was $188.5 billion at 10:15 a.m. in New York, $1.5 billion more than Bezos,
who has held the top spot since October 2017. As chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.,
or SpaceX, Musk is also a rival to Bezos, owner of Blue Origin LLC, in the private space race.
Over the past year his net worth soared by more than $150 billion in possibly the fastest bout of wealth creation in history.
Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet.
The South Africa-born engineer’s net worth was $188.5 billion at 10:15 a.m. in New York, $1.5 billion more than Bezos,
who has held the top spot since October 2017. As chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.,
or SpaceX, Musk is also a rival to Bezos, owner of Blue Origin LLC, in the private space race.
Over the past year his net worth soared by more than $150 billion in possibly the fastest bout of wealth creation in history.
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:03 pm
(January 11, 2021) The Pandemic Produced 56 New American Billionaires
56: That’s how many newly minted billionaires the United States gained between mid-March and December 2020, bringing the total number to 659,
according to a report by the Institute of Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, per NBC News.
These individuals have seen their collective net worth increase by more than a trillion dollars during the pandemic so far.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country continues to grapple with high unemployment and small business closures,
amid soaring Covid infections. Last year saw the biggest single-year increase in the U.S. poverty rate of any year since records began in 1960,
with the poverty rate for individuals without a college degree climbing to 22.1% in November.
56: That’s how many newly minted billionaires the United States gained between mid-March and December 2020, bringing the total number to 659,
according to a report by the Institute of Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness, per NBC News.
These individuals have seen their collective net worth increase by more than a trillion dollars during the pandemic so far.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country continues to grapple with high unemployment and small business closures,
amid soaring Covid infections. Last year saw the biggest single-year increase in the U.S. poverty rate of any year since records began in 1960,
with the poverty rate for individuals without a college degree climbing to 22.1% in November.
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:20 pm
(December 14, 2020) With Elon Musk moving to Texas, the 3 richest people in the world are expected to pay $ 0 in income tax.
Moving from California to Texas is convenient for Musk, who will now be close to the aforementioned SpaceX and Tesla sites,
but something else is happening. Lone Star State is one of nine income tax-free states,
and Musk gets a big tax break by leaving California,
which has the highest income tax of any state.
Musk, the second richest man in the world, has an estimated net worth of $ 152 billion,
flanked by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, both of whom live in Washington, yet another state with no income tax.
This means that the three richest people in the world, worth a total of $ 462 billion, do not have to pay income tax.
Typically, state income taxes go to the state budget to pay for things like infrastructure, education systems, and road maintenance.
fr24news.com/a/2020/12/with-elon-musk-moving-to-texas-the-3-richest-people-in-the-world-are-expected-to-pay-0-in-income-tax-heres-why-9-states-in-the-united-states-levy-no-income-tax.html
Moving from California to Texas is convenient for Musk, who will now be close to the aforementioned SpaceX and Tesla sites,
but something else is happening. Lone Star State is one of nine income tax-free states,
and Musk gets a big tax break by leaving California,
which has the highest income tax of any state.
Musk, the second richest man in the world, has an estimated net worth of $ 152 billion,
flanked by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, both of whom live in Washington, yet another state with no income tax.
This means that the three richest people in the world, worth a total of $ 462 billion, do not have to pay income tax.
Typically, state income taxes go to the state budget to pay for things like infrastructure, education systems, and road maintenance.
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:45 pm
(January 25, 2021) Workers lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic. Women and Gen Z saw the biggest losses.
Workers around the world cumulatively lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the coronavirus pandemic — an 8.3% decline
according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
American workers saw the largest losses in earnings, a 10.3% decline.
Globally, 8.8% of working hours were lost, and 114 million people experienced employment loss
what the report called an "unprecedented" level.
businessinsider.com/workers-lost-37-trillion-in-earnings-during-the-pandemic-2021-1?r=US&IR=T
(January 26, 2021) Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic
Worldwide, billionaires saw their wealth increase by $3.9 trillion between March 18 and December 31, 2020.
While billionaires saw initial losses at the start of the pandemic — like millions
of others around the globe — the report says they had recovered all losses by November.
Meanwhile, recovery for those at the bottom could take up to a decade;
the report also estimates that between 200 million to 500 million people may have fallen into poverty during 2020.
businessinsider.com/billionaires-made-39-trillion-during-the-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccines-2021-1?r=DE&IR=T
Workers around the world cumulatively lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the coronavirus pandemic — an 8.3% decline
according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
American workers saw the largest losses in earnings, a 10.3% decline.
Globally, 8.8% of working hours were lost, and 114 million people experienced employment loss
what the report called an "unprecedented" level.
businessinsider.com/workers-lost-37-trillion-in-earnings-during-the-pandemic-2021-1?r=US&IR=T
(January 26, 2021) Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic
Worldwide, billionaires saw their wealth increase by $3.9 trillion between March 18 and December 31, 2020.
While billionaires saw initial losses at the start of the pandemic — like millions
of others around the globe — the report says they had recovered all losses by November.
Meanwhile, recovery for those at the bottom could take up to a decade;
the report also estimates that between 200 million to 500 million people may have fallen into poverty during 2020.
businessinsider.com/billionaires-made-39-trillion-during-the-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccines-2021-1?r=DE&IR=T
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by Abacus Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:18 pm
(February 17, 2021) Jeff Bezos overtakes Elon Musk to reclaim world’s richest person title
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reclaimed the top spot on the world’s richest list,
winning the title back from Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk just weeks after losing it.
Tesla shares slid over two percent on Tuesday, erasing around $4 billion from Musk’s fortune, according to ranking websites’ estimates.
The drop ended Musk’s six-week reign as the world’s wealthiest man, according to Forbes,
which currently puts his net worth at $173.4 billion, compared to Bezos’ $190.3 billion.
rt.com/business/515773-jeff-bezos-overtakes-musk/
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reclaimed the top spot on the world’s richest list,
winning the title back from Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk just weeks after losing it.
Tesla shares slid over two percent on Tuesday, erasing around $4 billion from Musk’s fortune, according to ranking websites’ estimates.
The drop ended Musk’s six-week reign as the world’s wealthiest man, according to Forbes,
which currently puts his net worth at $173.4 billion, compared to Bezos’ $190.3 billion.
rt.com/business/515773-jeff-bezos-overtakes-musk/
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:05 pm
(February 12, 2021) Taxes on the Rich: One-Sixth of What They Used to Be
The top .01 percent in America is a phenomenally wealthy group. Even during America’s most egalitarian periods,
the average member of the top .01% held over 200 times the wealth of the average American.
Today, the wealth of the average top .01 percenter is nearly 1,000 times that
of the average American and is closing in on one billion dollars.
Effectively, taxes on the ultra-wealthy have nearly been eliminated.
The members of the top 0.1 percent pay only one-sixth of what they paid a half century ago in taxes.
What used to be paid every two months is now paid every twelve.
And there’s no sign this trajectory is changing.
inequality.org/great-divide/taxes-on-the-rich/
The top .01 percent in America is a phenomenally wealthy group. Even during America’s most egalitarian periods,
the average member of the top .01% held over 200 times the wealth of the average American.
Today, the wealth of the average top .01 percenter is nearly 1,000 times that
of the average American and is closing in on one billion dollars.
Effectively, taxes on the ultra-wealthy have nearly been eliminated.
The members of the top 0.1 percent pay only one-sixth of what they paid a half century ago in taxes.
What used to be paid every two months is now paid every twelve.
And there’s no sign this trajectory is changing.
inequality.org/great-divide/taxes-on-the-rich/
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:25 pm
(March 2, 2021) China has 1,058 billionaires, outpacing the US: Hurun report
China has outpaced the US to become the first country in the world with more than 1,000 billionaires,
according to the newly released 2021 Hurun Global Rich List. In total, at the beginning of 2021, China now has 1,058 billionaires
with their wealth denominated in US dollar, an increase of 259 billionaires from the number last year.
Globally, 412 new billionaires have been added this year, which brings the world'stotal billionaires to 3,228 at present.
Zhong Shanshan, founder of Nongfu Spring, became the first Chinese entrepreneur to make it to the top 10
of the world's wealthiest people list with 550 billion yuan ($84.96 billion) in personal wealth.
Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, ranks second on the list of China's wealthiest people with an 70 percent of increase of his wealth to 480 billion yuan.
Huang Zheng, founder of Pinduoduo, surpassed Jack Ma and ranked third on the list of China's wealthiest people with 450 billion yuan.
globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1217047.shtml
China has outpaced the US to become the first country in the world with more than 1,000 billionaires,
according to the newly released 2021 Hurun Global Rich List. In total, at the beginning of 2021, China now has 1,058 billionaires
with their wealth denominated in US dollar, an increase of 259 billionaires from the number last year.
Globally, 412 new billionaires have been added this year, which brings the world'stotal billionaires to 3,228 at present.
Zhong Shanshan, founder of Nongfu Spring, became the first Chinese entrepreneur to make it to the top 10
of the world's wealthiest people list with 550 billion yuan ($84.96 billion) in personal wealth.
Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, ranks second on the list of China's wealthiest people with an 70 percent of increase of his wealth to 480 billion yuan.
Huang Zheng, founder of Pinduoduo, surpassed Jack Ma and ranked third on the list of China's wealthiest people with 450 billion yuan.
globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1217047.shtml
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:20 pm
(June 8, 2021) The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.
He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.
Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.
ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years.
The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.
It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.
The IRS records show that the wealthiest can — perfectly legally — pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction
of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.
propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.
He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.
Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn did it twice. George Soros paid no federal income tax three years in a row.
ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years.
The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.
It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.
The IRS records show that the wealthiest can — perfectly legally — pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction
of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.
propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:32 pm
(June 25, 2021) Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
by Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan and James Bandler
Over the last 20 years, Thiel has quietly turned his Roth IRA — a humdrum retirement vehicle
intended to spur Americans to save for their golden years — into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank,
confidential Internal Revenue Service data shows. Using stock deals unavailable to most people,
Thiel has taken a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall.
What’s more, as long as Thiel waits to withdraw his money until April 2027,
when he is six months shy of his 60th birthday, he will never have to pay a penny of tax on those billions.
What this secret information reveals is that while most Americans are dutifully paying taxes
— chipping in their part to fund the military, highways and safety-net programs —
the country’s richest citizens are finding ways to sidestep the tax system.
propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank
by Justin Elliott, Patricia Callahan and James Bandler
Over the last 20 years, Thiel has quietly turned his Roth IRA — a humdrum retirement vehicle
intended to spur Americans to save for their golden years — into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank,
confidential Internal Revenue Service data shows. Using stock deals unavailable to most people,
Thiel has taken a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall.
What’s more, as long as Thiel waits to withdraw his money until April 2027,
when he is six months shy of his 60th birthday, he will never have to pay a penny of tax on those billions.
What this secret information reveals is that while most Americans are dutifully paying taxes
— chipping in their part to fund the military, highways and safety-net programs —
the country’s richest citizens are finding ways to sidestep the tax system.
propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tech-mogul-peter-thiel-turned-a-retirement-account-for-the-middle-class-into-a-5-billion-dollar-tax-free-piggy-bank
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:58 pm
(October 18, 2021) U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surged by 70%, or $2.1 Trillion, During Pandemic; They Are Now Worth a Combined $5 Trillion
America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic,
their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70 percent — from just short of $3 trillion
at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to over $5 trillion on October 15 of this year,
according to Forbes data analyzed by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality (IPS).
The $5 trillion in wealth now held by 745 billionaires is two-thirds more than the $3 trillion
in wealth held by the bottom 50 percent of U.S. households estimated by the Federal Reserve Board.
To put this extraordinary wealth growth in perspective, the $2.1 trillion gain over 19 months by U.S. billionaires is equal to:
- 60 percent of the $3.5 trillion 10-year cost of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan.
- The entire $2.1 trillion in new revenues over 10 years approved by the House Ways and Means Committee
to help pay for President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) investment plan.
Most of these huge billionaires’ gains will go untaxed under current rules and will disappear entirely for tax purposes when they’re passed onto the next generation.
inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic,
their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70 percent — from just short of $3 trillion
at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to over $5 trillion on October 15 of this year,
according to Forbes data analyzed by Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality (IPS).
The $5 trillion in wealth now held by 745 billionaires is two-thirds more than the $3 trillion
in wealth held by the bottom 50 percent of U.S. households estimated by the Federal Reserve Board.
To put this extraordinary wealth growth in perspective, the $2.1 trillion gain over 19 months by U.S. billionaires is equal to:
- 60 percent of the $3.5 trillion 10-year cost of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan.
- The entire $2.1 trillion in new revenues over 10 years approved by the House Ways and Means Committee
to help pay for President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) investment plan.
Most of these huge billionaires’ gains will go untaxed under current rules and will disappear entirely for tax purposes when they’re passed onto the next generation.
inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:09 pm
(November 19, 2021) Billionaire Economy Is Booming With Private Jets in Short Supply
The hunger for pricey jets is just the latest example of the booming billionaires economy,
where demand for mansions, boats and many collectibles has surpassed pre-Covid levels.
The number of superyachts sold this year through mid-October increased by about 60%
to 523 from the same period last year, according to research from SuperYacht Times.
More than a quarter of those purchases were for new vessels.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-19/billionaire-economy-is-booming-with-private-jets-superyachts-and-mansions
The hunger for pricey jets is just the latest example of the booming billionaires economy,
where demand for mansions, boats and many collectibles has surpassed pre-Covid levels.
The number of superyachts sold this year through mid-October increased by about 60%
to 523 from the same period last year, according to research from SuperYacht Times.
More than a quarter of those purchases were for new vessels.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-19/billionaire-economy-is-booming-with-private-jets-superyachts-and-mansions
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:18 pm
(December 21, 2021) The Biggest Losers: These Billionaires’ Fortunes Fell $152 Billion In 2021
This year’s biggest billionaire losers–the 10 tycoons who shed the most wealth in 2021–saw their net worths drop by a collective $152 billion.
By far the most damage was felt by China’s super-rich, who make up six of the ten billionaires with the largest net worth declines of the year.
Chinese billionaires–who led the world in wealth growth in 2020–are just 4% richer than a year ago as a whole, compared to a 60% gain last year.
forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/12/21/the-biggest-losers-these-10-billionaires-each-lost-at-least-10-billion-this-year/
This year’s biggest billionaire losers–the 10 tycoons who shed the most wealth in 2021–saw their net worths drop by a collective $152 billion.
By far the most damage was felt by China’s super-rich, who make up six of the ten billionaires with the largest net worth declines of the year.
Chinese billionaires–who led the world in wealth growth in 2020–are just 4% richer than a year ago as a whole, compared to a 60% gain last year.
forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/12/21/the-biggest-losers-these-10-billionaires-each-lost-at-least-10-billion-this-year/
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:19 pm
(December 31, 2021) This Was the Year of the Super Billionaire, With $1 Trillion in Gains
Elon Musk’s wealth soared to levels only ever achieved by John D. Rockefeller.
Bill Hwang lost $20 billion in days, Bill Gates -- once the world’s richest man -- divorced under a Jeffrey Epstein cloud.
The combined net worths on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index now exceeds $8.4 trillion, more than the GDP of all countries except the U.S. and China.
The enormous fortunes amassed by the 0.001% also underscored how the uneven recovery from the economic shock of Covid-19 has become more entrenched.
As the very richest benefited from bumper markets and loose fiscal policy, the pandemic pushed as many as 150 million people into extreme poverty,
according to World Bank estimates, a number that stands to increase if inflation continues to rise.
bloombergquint.com/business/the-year-of-the-super-billionaire-marked-by-1-trillion-in-gains
Elon Musk’s wealth soared to levels only ever achieved by John D. Rockefeller.
Bill Hwang lost $20 billion in days, Bill Gates -- once the world’s richest man -- divorced under a Jeffrey Epstein cloud.
The combined net worths on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index now exceeds $8.4 trillion, more than the GDP of all countries except the U.S. and China.
The enormous fortunes amassed by the 0.001% also underscored how the uneven recovery from the economic shock of Covid-19 has become more entrenched.
As the very richest benefited from bumper markets and loose fiscal policy, the pandemic pushed as many as 150 million people into extreme poverty,
according to World Bank estimates, a number that stands to increase if inflation continues to rise.
bloombergquint.com/business/the-year-of-the-super-billionaire-marked-by-1-trillion-in-gains
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:11 pm
(March 11, 2022) AFTER 2 YEARS OF COVID, U.S. BILLIONAIRES ARE $1.7 TRILLION, OR 57%, RICHER
Two years into the biggest national health crisis in recent history, U.S. billionaires’ wealth continues to soar
above the misery: as of March 10, their collective wealth has shot up by $1.7 trillion, or 57%,
since the pandemic emergency was proclaimed in mid-March 2020. Their total wealth reached $4.6 trillion,
up from $2.95 trillion on March 18, 2020, according to the latest report from Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) based on Forbes data.
The number of U.S. billionaires increased by 15%, from 614 to 704.
Data can be found in the table below and here for all billionaires, including a state-by-state breakdown.
Under current law, none of that wealth gain—essentially income—will likely ever be taxed.
americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/2-years-covid-u-s-billionaires-1-7-trillion-57-richer/
Two years into the biggest national health crisis in recent history, U.S. billionaires’ wealth continues to soar
above the misery: as of March 10, their collective wealth has shot up by $1.7 trillion, or 57%,
since the pandemic emergency was proclaimed in mid-March 2020. Their total wealth reached $4.6 trillion,
up from $2.95 trillion on March 18, 2020, according to the latest report from Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) based on Forbes data.
The number of U.S. billionaires increased by 15%, from 614 to 704.
Data can be found in the table below and here for all billionaires, including a state-by-state breakdown.
Under current law, none of that wealth gain—essentially income—will likely ever be taxed.
americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/2-years-covid-u-s-billionaires-1-7-trillion-57-richer/
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Re: Billionaires pandemic profits
by Abacus Sun Jun 04, 2023 7:08 pm
(June 3, 2023) The 16 cities around the world with the most billionaires, ranked
1. New York City - Billionaire population in 2022: 136
2. Hong Kong - Billionaire population in 2022: 112
3. San Francisco - Billionaire population in 2022: 84
4. Moscow - Billionaire population in 2022: 76
5. London - Billionaire population in 2022: 75
6. Beijing - Billionaire population in 2022: 61
7. Los Angeles - Billionaire population in 2022: 58
8. Singapore - Billionaire population in 2022: 54
9. Shenzhen, China - Billionaire population in 2022: 42
10. Mumbai, India - Billionaire population in 2022: 39
11. Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Billionaire population in 2022: 38
12. Hangzhou, China - Billionaire population in 2022: 34
13. Istanbul - Billionaire population in 2022: 33
13. Sao Paolo - Billionaire population in 2022: 33
15. Chicago - Billionaire population in 2022: 32
15. Paris - Billionaire population in 2022: 32
https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-live-in-the-world-cities-ranking-2023-6?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social#15-chicago-tie-2
1. New York City - Billionaire population in 2022: 136
2. Hong Kong - Billionaire population in 2022: 112
3. San Francisco - Billionaire population in 2022: 84
4. Moscow - Billionaire population in 2022: 76
5. London - Billionaire population in 2022: 75
6. Beijing - Billionaire population in 2022: 61
7. Los Angeles - Billionaire population in 2022: 58
8. Singapore - Billionaire population in 2022: 54
9. Shenzhen, China - Billionaire population in 2022: 42
10. Mumbai, India - Billionaire population in 2022: 39
11. Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Billionaire population in 2022: 38
12. Hangzhou, China - Billionaire population in 2022: 34
13. Istanbul - Billionaire population in 2022: 33
13. Sao Paolo - Billionaire population in 2022: 33
15. Chicago - Billionaire population in 2022: 32
15. Paris - Billionaire population in 2022: 32
https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-live-in-the-world-cities-ranking-2023-6?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social#15-chicago-tie-2
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