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Citadel partners are donating $5 million of their personal wealth to New York hospitals to advance testing and immunity initiatives
"These initiatives represent the top scientific priorities for these leading medical institutions a…
Bryan Pietsch
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Liberal shoppers are hammering Home Depot's conservative roots, but the political reality of the home improvement big boxes is far more complicated
Home Depot and Lowe's both run political action committee that tend to contribute donations to Repu…
Áine Cain
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Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give their fortunes away through Warren Buffett and Bill Gates' Giving Pledge, but very little money may be actually helping people, according to a new study
Over 75% of the original 65 billionaires who promised to give away the majority of their fortunes i…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Here's why Home Depot's billionaire co-founder is helping pay tuition for every NYU med school student
Langone's donation comes at a time when young people have a record amount of debt, fueled largely b…
Allana Akhtar
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How JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon came close to running Home Depot nearly 20 years ago
"He knew all the old Home Depot stories," Home Depot cofounder Arthur Blank said of the JPMorgan Ch…
Áine Cain
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A billionaire's vow to pay Morehouse graduates' loans isn't a surprise move, it's just the newest trend in the student-debt crisis
While the rich have donated money to universities for decades, they began using their money to addr…
Allana Akhtar
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The richest man in Hong Kong just pledged to cover 5 years of tuition for an entire college class, and it's going to cost him $14.4 million a year to do it
Sometimes called "Superman," the 90-year-old billionaire has a net worth of $30.4 billion, accordin…
Taylor Nicole Rogers
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Leon Cooperman made a bearish stock forecast, said rich people should pay more taxes, and addressed his Elizabeth Warren feud in a recent interview. Here are the 10 best quotes.
The investing legend is bearish on stocks in the longer term. He also said wealthy people should pa…
Emily Graffeo
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A Detroit university just agreed to provide city high school grads free tuition - and it's pointing to a nationwide trend toward lessening the burden of college costs
Michigan ranks ninth for how much residents are burdened with student loan debt, and the state's av…
Allana Akhtar
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Inside the story of Ben Hill: the fictional executive and hotline used by Home Depot's founders to listen to customer backlash
Home Depot cofounder Arthur Blank said that early customer complaints "were worth more than the adv…
Áine Cain
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'A parent chiding an ungrateful child': Billionaire Leon Cooperman steps up wealth-tax spat with democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren
"You proceeded to admonish me (as if a parent chiding an ungrateful child)," he said in the letter.…
Daniel Strauss
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A former Chris Christie megadonor just threw his support to John Kasich
Kenneth Langone, co-founder of Home Depot Inc, speaks at a panel discussion at the SALT conference …
Linette Lopez
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BILLIONAIRE FUND MANAGER: It's 'ridiculous' that I get a $2500 social security check
If you present valued what we have promised to seniors in Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid…
Julia La Roche
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Furious Home Depot shoppers say they're boycotting the store and cutting up their cards after one of the home-improvement retailer's founders said he'd donate some of his fortune to Trump's re-election campaign
The billionaire sparked an online controversy when he recently told the Atlanta Journal Constitutio…
Áine Cain
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Chris Christie has the Wall Street problem he never saw coming
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer threw a lunch for Christie last month, but he also threw…
Linette Lopez
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It looks like Chris Christie's got himself another billionaire
The only other donation to America Leads comparable to the Cohens' was from Nevada's Winecup-Gamble…
Linette Lopez
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Wall Street bankers have a new pitch for the Pope
"When you look at some of the great business leaders on Wall Street, they demonstrate a lot of the …
Lucinda Shen
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The Biggest Hedge Fund Conference Of The Year Just Kicked Off In Vegas - Here's What's In The Swag Bag
This year alone Kynikos Associates' Jim Chanos, Home Depot founder Ken Langone, Magic Johnson, Gene…
Linette Lopez
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Some of the richest Silicon Valley Republican executives are refusing to back Donald Trump or Ted Cruz
And Iowa results or not, she's still backing Governor Chris Christie big time. She signed on for a …
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Some Big Money Is Getting Behind A Relative Unknown For NYC Mayor
“I worry a lot about the fiscal health of New York City,” said Mr. Tisch, the head of Loews and an …