Key Takeaways Basketball legend Michael Jordan is the highest-paid athlete in history, with over $4.5 billion in total earnings. Golfers like Tiger Woods (…

Artificial general intelligence may eventually perform almost every cognitive task better than a human, while advanced robotics could handle much of the physical work that supports modern life. If that future arrives, the greatest challenge for family offices and ultra-high-net-worth families will n

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August 17, 2026, 3:01 AM ET “We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor. Some of the world’s most powerful tech billionaires think your next job posting could come from another planet. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman have all predicted a future where humans live and work in space. Now, Voyager Technologies founder and CEO Dylan Taylor is backing them up—and he’s putting a very soon timeline on it. According to

The world’s fourth-richest man is part of a consortium to buy a stake in the Reds – but he must keep the club’s traditional values intact

"Bill Gates owns more American farmland than any other private individual, spread across nearly 20 states." Aug 11, 2026 Billionaire land ownership is back in the spotlight after an Instagram post mapped the spread of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' farmland across the United States. What's happening? In a collaborative post with Localize (@localize.food), Grant Stoll (@GrantOnSoil) described Gates as the largest private owner of U.S. farmland. The biggest concentrations are in Louisiana and

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August 17, 2026, 3:30 PM ET California’s billionaire tax is the worst thing for entrepreneurs in history, according to Mark Cuban. Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban didn’t hold back in a public squabble with Rep. Ro Khanna about the proposed wealth taxes in California—cracking open a feud between one of the wealthiest Democratic Party supporters and the left wing of the party. The two sparred over a proposed wealth tax that would ask the state’s richest residents to hand over billions of

Updated Aug 17, 2026, 2:50 PM GMT Billionaire investor Jeff Gundlach says Wall Street's bid to turn artificial-intelligence chips into an investable asset class could be a warning that risk markets are nearing a peak. The DoubleLine Capital CEO and chief investment officer took aim at Nvidia's newly announced partnerships with six finance heavyweights, which are intended to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. Nvidia said last week that it had signed memoranda of understanding

Updated Aug 17, 2026, 5:15 PM GMT Leon Cooperman is back with another warning for investors. The billionaire investor and former Goldman Sachs CEO laid out a troubling outlook for the US economy and markets this week, predicting the US economy could tip into a recession sometime within the next year. Speaking to CNBC, the Omega Advisors CEO pointed to several signs in today's market that parallel past boom-and-bust cycles, such as the Nifty Fifty era in the mid-1900s. The famed hedge-funder said

Ray Dalio just placed a $900 million bet on a chipmaker that has already surged over 20% this year, and Wall Street is watching closely to see if the smartest money in the room still has the right timing.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has sparked fresh debate across markets with a brief but pointed remark on X.

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