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Senator Mark Warner gestures passionately in front of a "Broken Promises, Higher Costs" sign in a Senate hearing.
Success
From Wall Street heirs to telecoms tycoons, at least half of major U.S. Senate candidates are millionaires—and some are worth upwards of $200 million
By Preston ForeNovember 2, 2026
Dario Amodei
Success
Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—but the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero
By Preston ForeNovember 1, 2026
Jeff Bezos wearing a bowtie
Success
Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: ‘You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand’
By Preston ForeOctober 12, 2026
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Personal Finance
The great boomer hoard: Americans 55 and over hold $140 trillion, roughly three-quarters of total net worth
By Nick LichtenbergOctober 7, 2026
Elon Musk
Success
Elon Musk is a trillionaire again—and he’d still be the richest person on the planet even if he gave everyone $90
By Emma BurleighOctober 6, 2026
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates LP
Economy
Bulls and doomers are both right, says Ray Dalio—AI will be ‘miraculous’ for productivity but fuel a ‘devastating’ bubble and wealth inequality
By Eleanor PringleSeptember 22, 2026
Billionaire Melinda French Gates once revealed she refused to fund her Gen Z daughter’s startup—despite being worth over $34 billion
Success
Billionaire Melinda French Gates once revealed she refused to fund her Gen Z daughter’s startup—despite being worth over $34 billion
By Orianna Rosa RoyleSeptember 20, 2026
Photo of Mark Cuban
C-Suite
Mark Cuban wants to solve wealth inequality by making employers choose between paying higher taxes or giving every member of staff company stock
By Eleanor PringleAugust 24, 2026
The tax escape map: Billionaires are bolting for Florida from the West Coast and taking some $29 billion in tax revenue with them
Real Estate
The tax escape map: Billionaires are bolting for Florida from the West Coast and taking some $29 billion in tax revenue with them
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezAugust 23, 2026
Jeff Bezos
Success
Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year
By Preston ForeAugust 22, 2026
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Success
Elon Musk’s $158 billion Tesla pay was 2.5 million times his workers’ salary last year—it’s ‘unlike anything we have seen before,’ exec pay watch says
By Emma BurleighAugust 14, 2026
Wealthy man in car
Success
120 millionaires have signed a letter begging the British government to tax them more: ‘We can afford it’
By Emma BurleighJuly 24, 2026
Alex Karp gestures
Success
With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises
By Preston ForeJuly 17, 2026
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global Markets Conference in Paris, France, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
Economy
Jamie Dimon understands why people are anti-rich: ‘We have, in fact, left the lower-income folks behind’ and ‘that’s kind of annoying’
By Eleanor PringleJuly 15, 2026
Businessman flying private jet using smartphone
Success
Self-made multimillionaire says Canadians ‘give no money away’ compared with Americans—research shows U.S. giving is more than twice as high
By Preston ForeJuly 9, 2026
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