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CNBC Wealth Reporter, Best-selling author of “Richistan.”

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  1. 23 minutes ago

    Speculative bubbles everywhere: Patrick Mahomes rookie card sells for $861,000 . Most expensive football card ever sold.

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  2. Jan 28

    “‘Fair Share’ is a bullshit concept..I hate that expression with a passion. What does fair share mean? I’m willing to work 6 months of the year for the govt and 6 for myself” — Billionaire investor Lee Cooperman tells

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  3. Jan 28

    Botticelli’s “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” sells for $92.2 million . Highest price ever for an Old Master at the auction house.

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  4. Jan 28

    Their motto may be “Eat the Rich,” but what retail traders are actually doing is making the rich richer.

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  5. Jan 27

    Second biggest winner from GameStop — Don Foss, the 76-year-old subprime auto-loan magnate whose $12 million investment in last year is now worth over $500 million.

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    Jan 27

    Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen's $75M investment in is now worth $1.3B, roughly $3M per hour over the last two weeks. breaks down some of the other huge winners after 's meteoric rise:

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    Jan 25

    "We've been a tech-phobic, tech-resistant industry for decades. Now, our customers are demanding it. They want us to make their lives easier, happier, more productive," Tishman Speyer CEO on why Tishman is acquiring startup via SPAC.

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    Jan 25

    "One out of 10 apartments in the United States were built with our products last year. We're just getting started, there's so much more to come," says founder on going public via SPAC from Tishman Speyer.

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  9. Jan 24

    The winner of the $1.05 billion Mega Millions lottery, who purchased the ticket at a Michigan Kroger, will get $776.6 million as a lump sum or $530 million after taxes.

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    Jan 22

    Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers could be about to pay the highest combined tax rate in the nation. Under a new proposal from Gov. Cuomo, New York City residents would pay a top rate of 14.7% in state and local taxes. has the details.

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    Jan 21

    President Joe Biden is inheriting one of the largest wealth gaps in recent history. reports on the major challenge of closing that gap.

    Biden's challenge: Closing the larges wealth gap in recent history
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  12. Jan 18

    The top 1% added $5 trillion to their wealth in the first three quarters of 2020, the largest gain ever for three quarters. Their share of wealth, 31%, near record. We are likely in the midst of the largest surge in top wealth in recent history.

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  13. Jan 15

    1965 Shelby 427 Cobra Roadster owned for 46 years by Carroll Shelby just sold for $5.94 million at Kissimmee.

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  14. Jan 15

    This is just the playhouse of Tommy Hilfiger’s 20-acre Greenwich Estate that just sold for $45 million. It’s a scale model of George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

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  15. Jan 14

    The trifecta for a New York real-estate recovery would be: 300B+ state and local aid, repeal of SALT caps and no new pied-a-terre tax.

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    Jan 14

    "Even with the price drops and increase in rentals, Manhattan still has a near-record number of empty apartments" Manhattan apartment rentals nearly doubled in December per the report via

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    Jan 11

    A luxury nursing home in Florida is under investigation for vaccinating its wealthy board members and their friends instead of the elderly residents. has the story:

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  18. Jan 7

    Best response ever to becoming richest person in the world, from

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  19. Jan 7

    Despite the hype about the “democratization of stocks” the top 10% owns a greater share than ever — 88% of stocks,

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  20. Jan 7

    Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, passing Jeff Bezos this morning with a net worth of $185 billion.

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