The super-rich

Tech billionaires lost almost $100bn in stock market selloff sparked by DeepSeek

Nvidia saw $600bn of its market value disappear, while its CEO, Jensen Huang, saw his net worth drop by nearly $21bn

Edward Helmore

28, Jan, 2025 @3:30 PM

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Chris McGreal

26, Jan, 2025 @4:00 PM

London mansion formerly owned by Saudi royals sells for £139m

The Holme in Regent’s Park, which has 40 bedrooms, was put on the market two years ago for £250m

Joanna Partridge

24, Jan, 2025 @4:24 PM

Australians join super-rich cosying up to Trump – and aren’t afraid to say what they want

Gina Rinehart and Anthony Pratt are among the super-rich seeking a direct line to the US president and a chance to increase their already immense power

Ben Doherty

24, Jan, 2025 @2:00 PM

Challenge the orthodoxy and get Boris Johnson’s 40 new hospitals built | Letters

Letters: Infrastructure spending means investment in people, writes Netti Pearson, while Ann Eastman suggests corporate opportunities for the NHS and Brandi Leach calls on UK billionaires to be philanthropists

23, Jan, 2025 @5:52 PM

What is an oligarchy and is Biden right to call it a threat to US democracy?

Ultra-rich individuals are associating with Donald Trump as he ascends to the presidency for his second time

Victoria Bekiempis

23, Jan, 2025 @4:05 PM

What’s the point of Davos when even the rich are fed up with the super-rich? | Zoe Williams

Rachel Reeves told the elites gathered in Switzerland she was relaxed about ‘wealth creation’. She’s in the minority on that, says columnist Zoe Williams

Zoe Williams

23, Jan, 2025 @2:43 PM

Rachel Reeves to soften non-dom tax changes to woo rich for growth push

Tweak to finance bill is part of Labour push to show UK is attractive place to invest

Heather Stewart and John Collingridge in Davos

23, Jan, 2025 @2:36 PM

Tax the rich – do it now. Start with me | Dale Vince

Across the Atlantic, we see more clearly than ever what happens when the extreme wealth of super-rich men becomes an attack on the public good, says green energy industrialist and campaigner Dale Vince

Dale Vince

23, Jan, 2025 @11:33 AM