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Tesla stock rallied more than 10% once again Friday as Wall Street regains faith in the often volatile electric vehicle stock led by its often volatile billionaire CEO Elon Musk.
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman was all praise for U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research’s report on Indian conglomerate Adani Group, calling it "highly credible" and "extremely well researched."
Las Vegas Sands—controlled by the family of the late casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson—is investing $6.8 billion in Macau and Singapore to expand its presence in Asia amid a gaming boom across the region.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵
I will be re-introducing my bill to extend Social Security's solvency for the next 75 years & expand benefits by $2,400 a year. How? By scrapping the cap. Today, a billionaire pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $160,000 a year. Let's end that absurdity.
@WallStreetSilv Even if you tax every billionaire in America at 100%, it barely makes a dent in the national debt. In the end, the government will be forced to tax everyone to pay the debt. Btw, $31T doesn’t include unfunded liabilities, which are *much* higher.
When Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine, he refused to patent it. That decision cost him an estimated $7 billion. When Stéphane Bancel, Moderna's CEO, got taxpayer funding for the COVID vaccine he became a billionaire overnight and is now worth $6.2 billion. End this greed.
The fact that Jeff Bezos increased his wealth by $13 billion in 1 day during a pandemic, while his employees struggle to make ends meet and 50 million Americans are filing for unemployment, tells you a great deal about how our economy is rigged in favor of the billionaire class.
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