Billionaires
The Trump billionaires who run the economy and the things they say
Psychologists say that extreme wealth changes people and their views of those who have less.
- Elisabeth Bumiller
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- Opinion
- Opinion
Elon Musk and the dangerous myth of ‘omnigenius’
The Tesla CEO is good at building cars and rockets. That doesn’t mean he’s good at everything else.
- Gautam Mukunda
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump’s sharemarket bonanza and the billionaire bros club
There were many winners in the market frenzy that followed Donald Trump’s about-face, including the US president himself, but his capitulation revealed who is really in charge.
- Colin Kruger
Real-life ‘White Lotus’ billionaires race to capitalise on show
Two local ultra-rich tycoons are happy to attach their companies’ brands to the confronting plot that exposes the dark side of most characters.
- Filipe Pacheco, Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Danny Lee
Billionaires poised to lose nearly a trillion dollars in two days
The world’s 500 richest people suffered the biggest two-day loss ever in the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.
- Dylan Sloan
- Opinion
- Elon Musk
Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day
The merger of social media platform X with Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI will allow him, his co-investors and X’s banks to exit the struggling business unscathed.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Wall Street giant that turns its executives into billionaires
Blackstone has become a Wall Street powerhouse that manages over a trillion dollars worth of assets. It is sharing the spoils.
- Ben Stupples and Dylan Sloan
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
Trump’s dealmaking is all about him
Donald Trump is after personal and public hegemony for himself and the US, and he’s willing to tank the law, the Constitution and global alliances to get there.
- Timothy L. O'Brien
Trump slump leaves president’s billionaire friends $335 billion poorer
As Donald Trump took the oath of office on January 20, he was flanked by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. They had never been richer. How things have changed.
- Dylan Sloan
The billionaire Elon Musk disciple protecting Earth from city-killing asteroids
Meet Jared Isaacman, a daredevil private astronaut and billionaire ally of Elon Musk who has been lined up by Donald Trump to lead NASA.
- Matthew Field
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