Wealth

The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley attends a press conference about an updated aid appeal for South Sudan on May 15, 2017 at the United Nations Office in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images The UN’s top food official has urged billionaires and businesses to help save 30 million people around

With America’s large wealth gap and the United States government’s need for revenue, new taxes need to be implemented to raise more money from the rich — and the way to do that is with a wealth tax, economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty said Thursday. “Where we are today in the 21st century,

Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson. Craig Barritt LONDON – Virgin founder Richard Branson is looking to raise $460 million to create a new special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, becoming the latest in a line of wealthy investors to do so.  In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director Mike Speiser speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt at Pier 48 on September 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | Getty Images Two months after Facebook’s massive IPO in 2012, venture capitalist Mike Speiser was a few miles away from the social networking company, incubating a software start-up from

A 67-million-year-old T. rex specimen, named Stan, will be auctioned off by Christie’s on Oct. 6 and will be on display in the windows of Christie’s Rockefeller Center starting Wednesday. Robert Frank One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever unearthed is coming up for auction and could fetch between $6 million

Entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel has a lot going on. She is the founder of Skinnygirl, as well as disaster relief initiative BStrong. And she’s launching her podcast, “Just B with Bethenny Frankel” this month. To get it all done, Frankel is “so organized,” she tells CNBC Make It. So what do her days look like? Frankel says

Singapore Airlines is said to be considering a new route next month — what media reports are calling a “flight to nowhere.” Flights that take off and land from the same place — in this case, Singapore Changi Airport — may start as early as next month, according to a report in the local Straits Times

Before Mark Cuban became a billionaire, he spent his 20s struggling to make ends meet – Cuban frequently came home to his lights turned off, he had his credit cards cut and he worked a number of odd jobs to stay afloat. It wasn’t until Cuban sold his start-up, MicroSolutions, for $6 million in 1990 that

A man enters a building with rental apartments available on August 19, 2020 in New York City. Exodus out of New York has leaded the city into a highest number of retails and apartments left to rent after the Coronavirus pandemic. Eduardo MunozAlvarez | VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images The number of

In 2014, Todd Kunsman, founder of personal finance blog Invested Wallet, was $29,000 in debt and working a job that paid less than $36,000 per year. Kunsman decided to take the reins of his finances and improve his situation, educating himself on topics like investing and money at large. “I decided to dedicate an hour

Louis Vuitton owner LVMH said Thursday it intends to file a lawsuit in Delaware against Tiffany, arguing the upscale diamond retailer has mismanaged the coronavirus crisisth.  The news comes a day after LVMH announced it would be scrapping its $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, a deal that would have been the biggest ever in the luxury industry. Tiffany

D Color Flawless Diamond Source: Sotheby’s Sotheby’s is set to auction off a 102-carat diamond that could become the most expensive jewel ever sold to an online bidder. The stone, a 102.39-carat D Colour Flawless Oval Diamond, could fetch $10 million to $30 million. Only seven flawless white diamonds of more than 100 carats have

Bill Gates helped build Microsoft into one of the world’s most valuable companies. But between the hard work it took to get the company off the ground and the pressure to succeed against fierce competition, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder wasn’t always such a nice guy to his employees. Gates, much like fellow tech icon Steve

Ex-New York Jets wide receiver Josh Bellamy was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in a $24 million Covid-19 relief scheme, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.  The complaint says that Bellamy, along with 10 other defendants, allegedly applied for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans via at least 90 fraudulent applications for a total more

As mortgage rates reach all-time lows due to the pandemic, demand for real estate has increased exponentially. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should buy a home right now. Way too many homebuyers overextended themselves during the 2008 financial crisis. As a result, most of us paid the price. Having your neighbor conduct a short sale or foreclosure

Sotheby’s is set to auction off a 102-carat diamond that could become the most expensive jewel ever sold to an online bidder. The stone, a 102.39-carat D Color Flawless Oval Diamond, could fetch $10 million to $30 million. Only seven flawless white diamonds of more than 100 carats have ever been sold at auction. It

GQ Editor-in-chief Dylan Jones attends the Paul Smith AW20 50th Anniversary show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 19, 2020 in Paris, France. David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Paul Smith Editor-in-chief of British GQ magazine Dylan Jones has told CNBC he’s not worried about the future of print publication, despite significant challenges in

In 1969, Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys as a 27-year-old rookie with a starting salary of $25,000 a year (a far cry from today’s rookie minimum salary of $610,000). In 1979, by the end of his 10 seasons with the Cowboys — which garnered him two Super Bowl wins, five appearances

Macallan 18 Mark Littler LTD A 28-year-old has sold a collection of whisky given to him each year by his father as a birthday present, for £44,000 ($57,363), in order to buy his first home. Matthew Robson, who lives in Somerset in the south of England, was given a bottle of 18-year-old Macallan single malt

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, manages over 250,000 employees globally – and when looking to hire new people or promote within, he looks for key “leadership” characteristics.   “Management, in an important way, is facts, analysis, details, follow-up [and] discipline. And it is hard. You have to do it all the time – [managing] sales, balance

Macy’s, which is known for kicking off the holiday season with its nationally televised Thanksgiving Day parade, is painting a picture of a holiday season unlike any other.  As the country still grapples with the global coronavirus pandemic, CEO Jeff Gennette said Wednesday he is anticipating a more drawn-out holiday season — with shopping kicking off

The sell-off in Tesla shares as been sharp and swift. As of Friday morning, the stock has lost roughly $85 billion in market cap since Monday and CEO Elon Musk’s wealth has taken a hit. But the stock is still up about 800% over the past year. CNBC’s “Squawk Box” crew discusses what could be

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | DigitalVision | Getty Images There is nothing like a precipitous decline of nearly 35%, followed by a swift rise of about 50% in the S&P 500 index — all within the span of five months — to motivate people to bust out the old cliché “buy low, sell high.” Ah, yes,

The United States’ richest Big Tech executives lost a collective $25 billion to their net worth after Thursday’s market sell-off, according to data compiled by CNBC’s Robert Frank. The S&P 500 tech sector closed down 5.8% Thursday, dragging markets in the red. The dramatic drops shaved several billions off the net worth of some of

Ever thought about going to Antarctica for the day? It’s possible through sightseeing tours by Antarctica Flights. The company operates flights that depart from Australia and fly one of 19 routes over the ice-covered continent. Flights depart and land at the same airport, making this one trip that actually is more about the journey than

Thanks to Amazon’s success, CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, worth $207 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. But when he started Amazon as an online bookseller in 1994, Bezos thought it was likely that his business would fail. “I thought there was a 30% chance that we might build a successful

Professional soccer player Amobi Okugo has spent years building up his side hustle, the smart money site A Frugal Athlete. Given the chance for a do-over, there’s one expense he’d save money on: Website design. Okugo started A Frugal Athlete in 2014 with money from his savings account, with initial start-up costs including hiring designers

If you want to tackle problems the same way as Bill Gates, you need to start with two simple questions: “Who has dealt with this problem well? And what can we learn from them?” “Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve tackled every big new problem the same way: by starting off with [those] two questions.

Hotels are rolling out the red carpet for a new breed of traveler: your new puppy. Lockdowns, social distancing and new work-from-home arrangements have caused animal adoptions to soar across the United States. A new TD Ameritrade survey found that 33% of Americans — and half of millennials — have considered fostering or adopting a

The coronavirus pandemic has uprooted most aspects of daily life. But some entrepreneurs are finding opportunities in crisis by sowing the seeds for a new future. CNBC Make It’s Karen Gilchrist speaks to three Singaporean start-ups to discover how their businesses are shaping a post-pandemic world. 07:36 Sun, Aug 30 20208:20 PM EDT