It's still dark when HamzelouIt arrives at the Grand Bellevue hotel at 7 a.m., and it's tipping with rain. She braved the elements to make it to an early "longevity workout." It's the first event scheduled at an aging conference in Gstaad, an upmarket, picture-postcard Alpine town...
“Who wants to live forever?” The immortal words of Freddie Mercury blast from the speakers as blue lights swivel around the room and a smoky mist floats up from the stage in front of me. If the audience is anything to go by, the answer to his question is: the mega rich. I’d co...
A couple who won millions may serve as an example. The winner of the $1.337 billionMega Millions jackpotmay never be revealed to the public, but whoever has the ticket for the second-largest prize in the game's history is coming into a life-changing amount of money. Many winners have s...
THE FILM BUSINESS Avengers Assemble has become one of the biggest- grossing films of all time. Or has it? Guy Adams examines the numbersAdams, Guy
In a significant financial move, OpenAI, the company behind the widely popular ChatGPT, has opened up a new avenue for its employees by allowing them to sell shares worth approximately $1.5 billion to SoftBank in a tender offer, as reported by CNBC. This
billion mark, while Spider-Man: No Way Home actually managed to do so. With it, some new actors joined the club of having multiple billion-dollar films under their belt. Even so, there were more than just the original ten actors to have pulled off the feat as well, across multiple ...
With a nod to Orbison’s Sun labelmates, the famed Million Dollar Quartet – Elvis Presley,Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins – the individual Wilburys can comfortably claim to be the Billion Dollar Quintet. Come with us behind the shades as we pin these traveling troubadours do...
Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. — Grant...
unsettling wealth. Depending on the estimate, John D. Rockefeller had anywhere from $300 billion to $400 billion.7J.P. Morgan was the U.S. lender of last resort before theFederal Reservewas established, stabilizing the economy through a massive loan to the government following the Panic of ...
John D. Rockefelleris often cited as the world's first billionaire, achieving that status in 1916 through his ownership of Standard Oil.2From that point over a century ago, wealth has multiplied to the point where the richest people in the world have fortunes that exceed $200 billion.3The ...