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This wikizine is about all things high net worth: the luxury market, health and well-being, real estate, finance, legal issues, literature, the media, entertainment, movies, music, education, philanthropy, religion and spirituality, politics, royalty, sports, and business.
It is about all things easily found online pertaining to these areas, with a special focus on the intersection of the high net worth issues and heads of state, billionaires, top CEOs, top celebrities, and other movers and shakers.
Published January 5, 2010. Haim Saban P'2011 and entertainment executive Casey Wasserman gave between $5 million and $10 million through their respective foundations to The William J. Clinton Foundation in 2009.
Last Sunday, a privileged group of 21 single billionaires and 22 single women attended what state media called one of the Chinese capital's most expensive parties ever -- a match-making ball with tickets costing 100,000 yuan ($14,650) a head.
The 21 billionaires were all registered members of Golden Bachelors, a Shanghai-based match-making agency dedicated to helping wealthy Chinese men and women find their potential better half, which also...
In London today, $90 million in Russian art is going under the gavel, and the auction houses are hoping that a still robust community of Russian billionaires will come out in force to repatriate their heritage. Both Christie's and Sotheby's are holding auctions on December 1, 2 and 3, with MacDougall's, which specializes in Russian art, also selling on December 2 and 3. Bonhams is conducting one today.
There are some signs that the sales could...
Strategic defaults—the phenomenon of people who could continue to make payments on the mortgages on their homes deciding to walk away from their obligations—are rising. According to the Wall Street Journal, strategic defaults are likely to exceed 1 million in 2009. This is making some worry about the very future of capitalism. Georgetown University business ethics professor George Brenkert told the Journal that borrowers who can afford to stay...
Getting filthy rich is so easy, even a caveman can do it.
Two destitute brothers living in a cave on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, could inherit a mammoth share of a $6.6 billion fortune left by their long-lost grandmother.
"We knew our m...
A couple of days ago, we blogged about the "Progress Report" released by the Center for American Progress on the influence of conservative and libertarian billionaires on politics and policy. We pointed out at the time that it seemed a curious tack for CAP to take, especially since the think tank itself was funded by billionaire George Soros and billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler. But we learn from Brian Doherty of Reason Magazine that...
The holiday season is traditionally the time when society extends a helping hand to the less fortunate among us. But this December, thanks to the world's continuing economic unease, we've got a whole...
Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Billionaires, millionaires, media personalities, and other distinguished guests will join forces to support the Mercy Corps Action Center to End World Hunger on Tuesday, December 8th at the Magic4Mercy Benefit featuring the world-renowned magician/mind reader/illusionist extraordinaire Steve Cohen. Proceeds from the event, which will begin at 7:00 p.m. with a champagne reception, will benefit the Action Center...
I'd hate to see what Ben Mezrich would write if he wasn't a fan.At the end of The Accidental Billionaires about Facebook's founding, Mezrich curiously writes: "I am an enormous fan of all the characters of this book; I am in awe of their genius, and I am grateful to have been able to get a glimpse into a world of creation I'd never known before." (p. 258; emphasis added.)Given the encompassing term "all", this would necessarily include then...
PR Log (Press Release) – Dec 25, 2009 – The deals beng done between the super rich in Ireland are scintillating stuff, whether chopping up ownership of national banks or funding Irelands most prestigious private members Golf Club shares Gary ...
Money can't buy you love, but among China's new super-rich, it can certainly help narrow the field in the quest for affection. China's booming economy has produced 130 dollar billionaires, but it seem...
Owosso, MI (www.MichiganPR.net) December 24, 2009 - The 2010 Edition of the REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRE DONORS LIST has been published. Ben Campbell - Publisher announced that 187 billionaires are indexed by name. The first section indexes those billionaires who donated more that $200,000 to the REPUBLICAN PARTY in the last election. 52 billionaires. The second section indexes billionaires who made substantial donations to the Republican Party...
Telegraph.co.ukRussian Billionaires May Spend $90 Million at AuctionBloombergThis evening, at its first sale of the week, Sotheby's sold 108 lots that were Imperial heirlooms, including many items by Faberge. ...Russian Relics For Sale in LondonThe Moscow TimesRoyal jewels shine at Russia sale, paintings flopReutersall 27 news articles »
All along the windy waterfront of San Francisco, health care activists fell as if dying at the feet of busy shoppers at one of San Francisco's busiest markets. Who better to dramatize the disparate treatment of rich and poor in America's healthcare system but the satirist group "Billionaires for Wealthcare"? Dressed in vintage furs and oversized sunglasses, the Billionaires stood at the side of the dying with their banner: "If we ain't...
London: Move over hotels, islands and yachts - some of the world's wealthiest people are nowadays forking over $ 70,000 dollars each for a computer drive containing their personal genome sequences. Up till now, less than a hundred members of the global