OVER THE past half-century, China has conjured vast wealth out of widespread poverty. Now comes the vexing part: how to pass it on to the next generation. For China, this poses a new and underappreciated risk. On its current trajectory, the first great intergenerational transfer in China’s modern history will widen inequality, cement privilege and…
Ray Dalio thinks you shouldn’t give up on AI just yet, even if you’re worried that the market craze is a bubble waiting to burst. The billionaire investor and Bridgewater Associates founder said he believed stocks were definitely mired in a bubble today — but that’s still no reason for investors to get out of…
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ushered in a new Gilded Era of philanthropic giving, likened in influence to the Rockefellers and Carnegies. But charity work is about to look very different as higher taxes are threatened on liberal institutions, and new methods of giving are popularized by women mega-donors. MacKenzie Scott has become a pioneer…
Already the world’s richest man, Elon Musk is defending his proposed $1 trillion Tesla pay package—arguing it’s less about joining the trillionaires club and more about making sure he can’t be sidelined. “I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass…
Material success can be measured in a multitude of ways: cars, luxury items, and followers. But behavioral finance expert Morgan Housel has an unusual exercise to do so: a reverse obituary. “It’s a little bit morbid, but it’s to write what you want your obituary to say, and then try to live your life up…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who has a net worth of around $240 billion, once described himself as a ‘lottery winner’ and emphasised on the moral obligation which comes with extraordinary wealth. In a 2001 interview, Bezos shared his thoughts on philanthropy, calling it a challenge equal to building a fortune. “If you are a lottery…
Attention, recruit! Welcome to our Investing Boot Camp. Deciding how to put your money to work can be a complicated endeavor, especially if your financial literacy levels feel a bit out of shape. But that’s what we’re here for. Over the last few months at Business Insider, we’ve explored several big questions about the art…
CEOs with major controlling stakes in their billion-dollar companies have the power to make themselves richer and richer, but one 82-year-old tech leader isn’t cashing in for herself. Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic Systems, has been selling her non-voting shares back to the company—and redirecting the profits elsewhere. “I’ve never cashed a single share…
A question looms over Wall Street as it digests the stock market highs in the dog days of summer 2025: Is this another version of the dotcom bubble? Apollo’s Torsten Slok has already calculated that the top 10 S&P 500 companies today are more overvalued than in the late ’90s tech boom. Now the investment…
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, launched in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, that invites the world’s wealthiest individuals and families to publicly commit to giving away at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy, either during their lifetimes or in their wills. The Institute for Policy Studies’ report “The Giving Pledge…