Sam Bankman-Fried, Crypto Billionaire Wants Washington to Follow Him

Mr. Bankman-Fried has spent most of Crypto Bahamas commuting from his laptop to the convention stage. Even his mother, Barbara Fried, had trouble spending time alone with him: One afternoon, trying to catch his eye, blockchain bro in a polo shirt cornered Mr. Bankman-Fried and asked him to shoot a birthday message for a friend. …

British Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe Offers $5.3 Billion for Chelsea FC

Jim Ratcliffe, a billionaire industrialist and one of England’s richest men, has made a $5.3 billion offer to buy Premier League football team Chelsea. “We’re making this investment as fans of the beautiful game – not as a tool to make a profit,” Ratcliffe said in a statement released by petrochemical business Ineos, confirming Chelsea’s …

‘Icahn: The Restless Billionaire’ Review: All On The Money

To the uninitiated, the term activist investor may sound like a stockholder is out on Wall Street with a strike signal and a reason. Carl C. Icahn, an excellent activist investor, pressure to buy stock in a company and make a change in management or strategy. First of all, the smiling documentary portrait “Icahn: The …

Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Arrives at the Space Station

Yusaku MaezawaThe Japanese billionaire and fashion retailer arrived on the International Space Station for a 12-day stay on Wednesday. It is the latest privately funded rover to the orbital lab in a year with more tourists traveling to space than ever before. Mr. Maezawa, founder of Zozo, a Japanese online fashion retailer, was launched from …

Billionaire Michael Steinhardt Gives $70 Million in Stolen

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said on Monday that Michael H. Steinhardt, billionaire hedge fund pioneer and one of New York’s most prolific antique collectors, handed over 180 stolen objects worth $70 million and was banned for life from acquiring any other relics. . The prosecution struck a deal with Mr Steinhardt after a four-year …

Is Billionaire Tax Legal?

Rethinking the tax on billionaires No one is better equipped to mount it. constitutional challenge a proposed tax on unrealized capital gains of the ultra-rich. 700 or so billionaires Who can face tax? And the rumble that the Democratic proposal would not survive Supreme Court scrutiny—not to mention the opposition from West Virginia Democratic Senator …