Billionaires

After reaping huge profits in the Biden years, some Wall Street billionaires and tech barons are throwing their support behind the President’s rival, who is desperate for their money.

One of the most influential Silicon Valley reporters chronicles the rise of an industry, and moguls like Elon Musk, in “Burn Book.”

Every party, at every time, has some tension between its élites and its base. But it’s hard to think of a more spectacular divide than the one currently defining the G.O.P.

They, too, have been known to toss and turn at night.

Innovator, world-changer, capital rearranger. Ready for takeoff.

In Arizona, voters from both parties overwhelmingly demanded that big, anonymous political donors reveal their identities.

Mr. Monopoly could completely revamp the banking system and set a minimum basic income—instead, he sends people directly to jail.

Critics say that big-time donors wield too much power over their fellow-citizens and perpetuate social inequality. But don’t cancel Lady Bountiful just yet.

Taxing unsightly agglomerations of wealth directly is an idea whose time has come.

Could the scrutiny of Putin’s favored billionaires hastened by the war in Ukraine extend to the hidden money that subverts democracy in the United States?

The billionaire doctor has become one of Los Angeles’s most prominent civic leaders, after a boundary-pushing ascent in medicine.

The ex-mayor continues to astonish.

Not just billionaires but private companies and a growing number of nations are, somewhat abruptly, competing to get into space.

Bezos, Musk, Zuck, et al. take to the street.

Purchase your world-saving equipment from Amazon. Amazon cares about bringing people together, as long as those people aren’t coming together to form a union.

Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.

Not only does he not know any actual billionaires, but the people he does know are “just the opposite,” Giuliani said.

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

After leaving the family empire, Rupert Murdoch’s son is investing in comics, championing Pete Buttigieg, and fighting threats to democracy that sound an awful lot like Fox News.