In the 10poorest countries in the world, the average per-capita purchasing power is less than $1,500 while in the 10 richest it is over $110,000, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A word of caution about these statistics: the IMF has warned repeatedly that ...
Marian Ilitch co-founded the Little Caesars Pizza chain with her late husband Mike Ilitch in 1959. In the intervening years, she reinvested the profits of her company and now owns the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers as well as Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel. Alex Goodlett // ...
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44. THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY – NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK Rockefeller University is located in New York City. It is a private graduate school. It provides doctoral and postdoctoral training in the biological and medical sciences. Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, it was established in 19...
Mel Brooks has had a long and illustrious career as an actor, producer, director, and comedian since he began writing comedy in the 1950s. He’s perhaps best known for the comedy films The Producers, adapted from his play, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. ...
Like Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Lopez’s career began as a singer, and has collaborated with some of therichest rockstars in the worldin this capacity. Her movie appearances began in the 1990s with roles in Anaconda, Out of Sight, and The Cell raising her public profile and overall net worth...
Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, Oxfam said on Monday in a report calling for action to curtail rewards for those at the top. As decision makers and many of the super-rich gather for this week’s World Economic Forum ...
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BSingapore was just a sleepy city in South-east Asia more than 50 years ago. But the small dot on the world map has since developed into one of the richest nations thanks to its founder and first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew the father of the state
It's a question more and more businesspeople ask each other these days, and increasingly the answer is yes. This hamlet of 25,000 in Northwest Arkansas is, of course, the home of Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, and as such has become a mandatory destination for hordes of vendors...