Liberals object to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision allowing tycoons to buy political influence, so why allow tycoons to buy influence in college admissions?
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Prohibition became law in 1920, turning petty crooks into tycoons.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore.
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In public, however, the normally voluble tycoons have fallen silent.
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LIKE most technology tycoons, Elon Musk exudes disdain for finance.
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For tech tycoons, it seems, sleep is the new fitness.
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And who says media tycoons don't live like regular people!
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Today, financiers, fashion moguls and chemical tycoons call Park home.
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However, a little healthy competition remains between the two tech tycoons.
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Six of those tycoons' sons were among those testifying this week.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have alteady started moving personal wealth offshore.
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Tech tycoons face roastings by Congress for their firms' privacy lapses.
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Parents, ministers and tycoons passed through his damp one-bedroom flat.
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But its terrorists were native white leftists who killed industrial tycoons.
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The fleet belongs to one of the country's best-known tycoons.
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Tycoons are particularly keen on schemes to cheat the grim reaper.
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Contemporary philanthropists don't look like the tycoons of the Gilded Age.
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A few tycoons are reinvigorating the 1990s idea of European empires.
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Among this emergent generation of investment tycoons, that hasn't gone unnoticed.
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If these widows can figure it out, tycoons can as well.
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It tackled the most powerful attackers -- including film and media tycoons.
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Local idiosyncrasies mean deep-pocketed Thai tycoons are more likely buyers.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have already started moving personal wealth offshore.
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But local tycoons realized that Beijing had underestimated the local opposition.
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I think the Chinese tycoons buy just as many private jets.
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The US was a nation of rich tycoons and poor, neglected laborers!
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Bailing out banks and tycoons would not play well at the polls.
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It also means creating digital markets that empower individuals rather than tycoons.
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He and his friends are now intent on becoming street food tycoons.
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For Silicon Valley tycoons, the businesses they start are like their children.
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But this episode seems likely to encourage further caution from China's tycoons.
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They can also become mini pizza tycoons, buying up other pizza parlors.
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Worldwide, tycoons' offshore financial cartwheels have been revealed through the Panama papers.
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President Xi's censorious attitude to gambling has hit Macau's gambling tycoons hard.
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Among them were 11 princes as well as ministers and wealthy tycoons.
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At the same time, China's business tycoons have become a powerful constituency.
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Like other Putian tycoons, Mr. Chen has been keeping a low profile.
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Are the tycoons who control Silicon Valley the robber barons of today?
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What would he do if he encountered one of these fake news tycoons?
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Washington included Russian tycoons and their firms on a sanctions blacklist in April.
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One of the most secretive Russian tycoons, Mr. Bogdanov avoids flaunting his wealth.
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Well-connected tycoons dominate business; many schools outside the biggest cities are woeful.
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Asian tycoons such as Jack Ma of Alibaba have created their own fiefs.
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Such a development, he added, would benefit only property tycoons and construction companies.
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In India, the long reign of "promoter" tycoons is, mercifully, nearing its twilight.
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As a result, his share is smaller than that held by comparable tycoons.
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Most tycoons seek to downplay the role of political connections in their ascent.
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They can become collaborators, unwitting or otherwise, just as Hollywood tycoons once were.
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I interviewed presidents, secretaries of state and defense, business tycoons and attorneys general.
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The tech tycoons Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, among others, provided seed money.
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He had waves of clients, starting with Greek shipping tycoons in the 1960s.
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Yet financial tycoons were furious with President Barack Obama because they felt disrespected.
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He talks of helping ordinary Americans even as he enriches tycoons like himself.
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The economy has long been dominated by the same conglomerates and increasingly elderly tycoons.
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Late nineteenth-century tycoons, their hearts full of social gospel and their pockets full
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Li and other real estate tycoons are facing pressure from China over the protests.
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Bent and welded, the Baby Tycoons feel lively and improvisational, but not particularly organic.
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Putting tycoons close to Bouteflika behind bars was a key demand of the protests.
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Donald Trump has a cabinet of tycoons and likes to be chummy with bosses.
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Instead, tax cuts could help distorporations owned by tycoons, including Mr Trump's own firm.
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A group of tycoons went on an investment binge that expanded the economy's capacity.
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IF THEY think their ranking on rich lists is too low, American tycoons fume.
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LAST week Schumpeter met two tech tycoons who control businesses in total worth $600bn.
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To the government and to Hong Kong's tycoons, democracy is scary for two reasons.
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This title has been conferred on or claimed by no fewer than ten tycoons.
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Russia has a history of law enforcement raids on tycoons who irritate the Kremlin.
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Home prices have risen and tycoons have grown wealthier, while officials hoard fiscal reserves.
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Unlike the robber barons of yore, today's Wall Street tycoons don't build anything tangible.
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He was one of the first Hong Kong tycoons to plow money into China.
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Wexner is one of a number of wealthy tycoons who associated themselves with Epstein.
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Two Thai tycoons took ownership of the Premier League teams Manchester City and Leicester.
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Rooms spread across 220 acres were booked continuously, often by celebrities and business tycoons.
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Chinese officials have scolded tycoons for allowing society to become so unequal and unaffordable.
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Johnson also cites a property crisis driven by "the greed of Hong Kong's tycoons."
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Ms. Park acknowledges that she met with the tycoons but denies that coercion occurred.
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Most of the tycoons passed on the doll, but he did get two investors.
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His family lives in an exclusive Khartoum suburb near business tycoons and foreign diplomats.
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Hong Kong affords mainland tycoons the ability to move "red capital" in and out.
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Hong Kong's leader must contend with powerful tycoons, restive residents and an almighty central government.
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That's in part because of a push to reset how banks, tycoons and politicians operate.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore amid concerns over the legislation.
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Tech tycoons have some decent arguments as to why size does not matter any more.
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I can take money from local tycoons in the Philippines who will have political interests.
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Property prices, blamed for increasing social inequality to the benefit of tycoons, continued to rise.
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Some tycoons have had to sell prized assets to keep afloat, a once unthinkable affront.
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As for Hong Kong, it is less fertile ground for would-be tycoons than before.
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Many tycoons could count on ministers to put in a word with a recalcitrant banker.
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The second threat to the tycoons is the grievous state of the state-owned banks.
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Property rights are fluid, as evidenced by crackdowns on tycoons in the past three years.
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Nor was disempowering the feckless but well-connected tycoons behind some of India's powerful conglomerates.
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Branson's tourism idea is rather conservative compared to plans from his fellow space-going tycoons.
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After years of abuse by tycoons, India Inc's animal spirits needed taming – but not killing.
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That in turn could leave the mass of voters – and not just the tycoons – frustrated.
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That has left the economy dominated by the state and firms run by business tycoons.
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Startup founders have flourished in the region, taking over where old-school tycoons left off.
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In recent years, movies featuring prosecutors kowtowing to business tycoons have become box-office hits.
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" Mr. Trump, in the White House, summoned steel and aluminum tycoons for a "listening session.
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Tycoons always claim to cherish ordinary people's best interests even as they rip them off.
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You may know T. Boone for being one of the successful oil tycoons in history.
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Some of Hong Kong's biggest real estate tycoons called Tuesday for the protests to end.
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Donald Trump and Mike Bloomberg are both billionaire tycoons with an eye for real estate.
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It will also line the pockets of well-connected tycoons who milk government infrastructure projects.
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Now, he has joined the ranks of Chinese tycoons ensnared in the country's anticorruption drive.
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Great read: Here's how one of China's richest tycoons saved an abandoned American paper mill.
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So here 100 is C. Mix that up with "snooty" and get TYCOONS, or barons.
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Most defaulting tycoons are politically connected, which is how some got the loan to start with.
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In the West, Mr Fridman knows, people assume that tycoons like him are "agents of influence".
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Some government actions have been dramatic, notably the arrests of tycoons who made lavish investments abroad.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have already started moving personal wealth offshore amid concerns over the legislation.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Hong Kong's tycoons know scale can come at the cost of coherence.
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So I offer to tycoons an idea to shift the initiative off their "to-do" lists.
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A slump in commodity prices has obliterated the balance sheets of its Wild West mining tycoons.
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As a result, the second and third spots in the ranking were occupied by steel tycoons.
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For the country's leading tycoons, keeping in the government's good graces is a well-established habit.
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Mr. Abramovich, in contrast to some other Russian tycoons, has avoided dabbling publicly in British politics.
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In "Legacy" he explores his maternal lineage—an arc spanning five generations from immigrants to tycoons.
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Outside China, some of the deals led regulators to ask questions about the tycoons behind them.
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But a will isn&apost just for elderly tycoons with big families and even bigger fortunes.
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The anti-corruption bureau investigated previously untouchable tycoons and politicians, including several of Mr. Lutsenko's subordinates.
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Oil tycoons have retrenched in the face of low oil prices, while companies have slashed budgets.
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Like most tech tycoons, he insists he's trying to change the world rather than get rich.
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"We should really look at them as role models," Ms. LuPone said of the two tycoons.
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A few tycoons own the property companies, utilities, supermarkets and other businesses central to everyday life.
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ELON MUSK, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has become one of the most famous tycoons in America.
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"The government has a long history of pushing the Korean economy by cultivating these tycoons," Fan said.
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In a recent meeting with visiting Western dignitaries, a senior Chinese official complained about Hong Kong's tycoons.
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After chasing down errant tycoons, authorities this week arrested opposition veteran and former finance minister, P. Chidambaram.
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Nor can the candidate be a tool of the tycoons, although without their support election is impossible.
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Rivals may start targeting the ultra-rich tycoons and up-and-coming founders on its client list.
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Flush with millions, these tycoons — for all their disrepute as robber barons — enhanced the great cultural institutions.
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Their camp consists mostly of professional politicians, rather than the patrician tycoons who once dominated the legislature.
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A small change to tax policy could hand $22 billion in tax savings to real estate tycoons.
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The Chinese president delivered that message to Hong Kong's tycoons during a 2017 meeting in the city.
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HALYTSYNOVE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's decision to put sanctions on one of Russia's wealthiest tycoons worries Vira Dudnyk.
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Russian assets extended Monday's slide as investors digested the new round of U.S. sanctions targeting Russian tycoons.
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Ever since it was revealed at CES 2016, oil tycoons everywhere have been patiently waiting to buy it.
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Lord Bamford, Chairman of JCB, and construction entrepreneur Fred Story are two industry tycoons supporting the Leave camp.
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Then it elevated the "robber baron" (again, the clue is in the name) tycoons of the Gilded Age.
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Using intimidation and buy-outs by pro-government tycoons, he has gained almost total control of the press.
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If you are one of many tycoons borrowing billions to finance dud firms, it is the government's problem.
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Handing tycoons the right to import and sell cigarettes or booze on favourable terms means less tax revenue.
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The consequences will vary by firm, with some tycoons gradually ceding control, and others clinging on to it.
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Chinese tycoons and insurance firms have already snapped up wineries in the "Old World", including France and Portugal.
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It says the drop in oil prices and actions of opposition-friendly tycoons have added to their problems.
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Thanks to tumbling energy and commodity prices politically connected tycoons have been feeling the squeeze in recent years.
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Foreign leaders and tycoons close to the regime are trying to frighten voters into backing the status quo.
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Meanwhile, tycoons are good at making money from the businesses they own even when no profits are forthcoming.
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Unlike "Monopoly", where players compete to be property tycoons, "Outside" simulates the hardships of life on the street.
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If we're really living in a new Gilded Age, then tech titans are some of its bloated tycoons.
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India's richest 15 people, which include Ambani, pharmaceuticals billionaires, and infrastructure tycoons, are worth a combined $215 billion.
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Indian business tycoons Mukesh and Anil Ambani waged a war against each other in and out of court.
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And he has good instincts about the media business, which Silicon Valley tycoons have long failed to understand.
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Successful, outspoken tycoons can win godlike status in China's get-rich society, and Mr. Trump is no exception.
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For many years these local tycoons have been the most important economic and political actors in Hong Kong.
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The trend, say bankers, is about bringing back control for Indian tycoons behind some of its biggest companies.
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Still, margins have improved after a difficult 2018, and Thai tycoons have a track record of spending big.
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Russian assets extended Monday's slide as investors digested the new round of U.S. sanctions targeting the country's tycoons.
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But Forbes's data imply that enough tycoons want to "age in place" to make their heirs juicy targets.
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Russia's former oligarchs are in exile, and its remaining tycoons depend on Putin and compete for his favor.
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Even property tycoons and companies in palm oil, Malaysia's biggest agricultural export, are making forays into the durian business.
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O'Leary is a judge on "Shark Tank," a TV show in which entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to successful tycoons.
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It has many old plants that produce power cheaply, some owned by powerful tycoons who would resist their closure.
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Mr Clinton wanted a philanthropic empire, but unlike America's tycoons he had to do it with other people's money.
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And if so, who can muster enough support from their fellow tycoons to actually win a vote next week?
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AMONG Africa's many foreign fixers and mining tycoons, few are more colourful than Dan Gertler, an Israeli diamond trader.
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As the bill was debated, some tycoons reportedly began withdrawing their money from the city and moving it elsewhere.
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But the tycoons partnered with U.S. hedge fund Baupost last year in a deal that saw them retake control.
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A year later a leaked secret-service file exposed her coalition partners' ties to tycoons, leaving voters disappointed again.
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Yet it is his own relationship with one of the country's wealthiest tycoons that could prove an Achilles' heel.
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Many business owners, from hawkers to tycoons, must hand over a slice of revenues, pushing them to the brink.
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Akerman had clashed with the country's new tycoons—notably railroad barons like Jay Gould—and they wanted him out.
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Liu, 45, is one of China's richest tech tycoons with an estimated net worth of more than $5 billion.
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When you think of celebrities and business tycoons, lavish lifestyles with private jets and yachts typically come to mind.
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Better still, under Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, tycoons appear to have lost their direct access to ministers' offices.
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But what of other tycoons who have created even bigger and more impressive companies and personified their very existence?
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The crackdown resulted in the detention of hundreds of royals, ministers and some of the Saudi Arabia's richest tycoons.
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The show is a satire, but the tycoons it spoofs imagine that they are the heroes of a drama.
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The penalties were part of an array of measures that targeted Deripaska and other tycoons close to the Kremlin.
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Washington said he and fellow tycoons were profiting from association with a Kremlin conducting "malign activities" around the globe.
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She launched a project last month to help rehabilitation and resettlement in Rakhine and has urged tycoons to contribute.
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Cozy ties between politicians and tycoons were at the heart of scandals that turned voters against the previous administration.
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The tycoons had showed more independence, even if they generally sided with the government against the pro-democracy opposition.
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Dozens of senior figures, including a former intelligence chief, Bouteflika's brother, government ministers and allied business tycoons were detained.
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It includes billionaire tycoons like Oleg Deripaska and Roman Abramovich, both of whom made their fortunes in the 1990s.
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Perhaps because of this, Liu, like many Chinese tycoons, is careful to seem modest when speaking about his success.
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They're both sons of wealthy real estate tycoons, and were elected in part based on their perceived business acumen.
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Jia, though, is just one of many Chinese tycoons pouring record sums into clubs, players, broadcast rights and sponsorship deals.
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A coterie of tycoons with a lock on the property market continue to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
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HOW much power does a tweetstorm involving two tech tycoons, the prime minister of Australia and 8.5m Twitter followers generate?
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The share prices of some companies linked to detained tycoons have plunged about 20 percent in the past three days.
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Like their peers in Silicon Valley, who limit voting rights, China's tech tycoons dislike it when investors call the shots.
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Over the past decade, Cvetkovic has said repeatedly he faced threats from local tycoons and politicians because of his work.
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But it is a price worth paying to level a pitch that has long been queered in the tycoons' favour.
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For the first time a large number of struggling tycoons face the prospect of having their businesses seized from them.
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Contemporaries such as Ida Tarbell did a good job of demonising John D. Rockefeller and other tycoons as "robber barons".
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Barnes's string-pulling comes to mind when considering today's prominent tycoons, who often hail from technology, e-commerce and media.
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Since his election, Trump has sat down with the likes of tech industry tycoons, football heroes and even Kanye West.
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Self-confidence is an obvious personality trait among successful tycoons, almost equally counterbalanced by a reluctance to listen to criticism.
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I remember when Latin America sent one of its tycoons to the top of the list of the world's billionaires.
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And now, of course, in Hong Kong the pro-Beijing political parties are paid by Beijing, indirectly through local tycoons.
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There was a time when railroad tycoons built empires by exploiting government connections to take advantage of the little guy.
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As a result, our nation's most valuable assets are owned not by private equity tycoons but by you and me.
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A number of private sector tycoons, nicknamed "big crocodiles", have found themselves ensnared in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive.
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Among those who promised to donate to the rebuilding effort were luxury goods tycoons Bernard Arnault and François-Henri Pinault.
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In the weeks before the list was revealed, Russian tycoons, officials and their lawyers showed great anxiety over the contents.
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The city's tycoons have been speaking out in recent days as the economic effects of the protests grow more apparent.
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Like Messrs Musk, Friedland and Wang, others from our list joined the ranks of tycoons by seeing their ideas mature.
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South Koreans have grown weary of endemic corruption and the country's traditional leniency toward tycoons accused of white-collar crimes.
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Written by Julie Scelfo and illustrated by Hallie Heald, the volume features 126 female artists, activists, politicians, criminals and tycoons.
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High-profile executives, billionaires and media tycoons often employ the best technology, services and consultants to keep their private conversations private.
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Part of the tycoons' clout comes from their contribution to Hong Kong's finances: 27% of government revenues come from land sales.
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The dominance of Hong Kong's wealthy property tycoons is increasingly being challenged as many are unwilling to compete with spiraling prices.
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Another scheme is The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch charity backed by crowdfunders, deep-pocketed endowments and tech tycoons like Peter Thiel.
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The third, Case 1000, involves Mr Netanyahu's acceptance of gifts, allegedly worth over $200,000, from Israeli tycoons (indictments were also recommended).
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On the current trajectory that will fall to 8% in half a decade; the tech tycoons might cash out even faster.
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Aircraft sales fell in 2016 as economies sputtered, companies slashed their spending and oil tycoons retrenched due to weak oil prices.
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Mr Ye's fate would fit a pattern of recent crackdowns on over-ambitious tycoons and the freewheeling financing of their firms.
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He also said Ukraine needed strong, independent media to counter the influence of outlets controlled by the country's powerful business tycoons.
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Trump treats terrorism in the Middle East as a business opportunity to create jobs at home and enrich defense industry tycoons.
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Beyond his everyman image, Zelenskiy has faced scrutiny over his business connections to one of Ukraine's most powerful tycoons, Ihor Kolomoisky.
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Apart from Haddad, two tycoons close to Bouteflika, Mahieddine Tahkout and Reda Kouninef, were put on the list, according to Ennahar.
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Apart from Haddad, two tycoons close to Bouteflika, Mahieddine Tahkout and Reda Kouninef, were also on the list, according to Ennahar.
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Our tycoons are smart – they are consummate rent seekers looking for minimum downside and capital preservation through dependable Western legal systems.
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Sales of business jets have slumped as companies, oil tycoons and billionaires tighten their purse strings amid an uncertain global economy.
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Unlike the Médoc, a region of imposing châteaux and numerous tycoons, Pomerol is plainer, a place where magnificence is rarely visible.
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Private-sector investment has been weak, and many tycoons have parked their money abroad should they run afoul of the government.
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Almost all of South Korea's former presidents, as well as many of its business tycoons, have been implicated in corruption scandals.
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The investigation unearthed a collapse that was years in the making, aided almost as much by regulators as by taxi tycoons.
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Baby Tycoons was conceived and installed through a close collaboration between the John Chamberlain Estate and the Hauser & Wirth gallery team.
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Henderson Land Development, which is owned by one of Asia's richest property tycoons Lee Shau-kee, dropped 4.1% in Hong Kong.
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The cozy ties between South Korea's government and the scandal-scarred conglomerate Samsung have made awkward optics for South Korean tycoons.
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Twice, he has worked on legal battles for Russian tycoons whose opponents suffered sophisticated hacking attacks, arousing allegations of computer espionage.
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Some are tycoons who are happy to support the local government and Beijing as long as no one touches their businesses.
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Last summer, Old Town, Maine, greeted the new owner of its defunct paper factory: one of the richest tycoons in China.
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His son Dmitry, like many other children of Russian tycoons, has become part of a second generation of post-Soviet businessmen.
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There are no great conquerors or heroes, no great industrial tycoons or politicians, and no respect for businesspeople or material wealth.
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But she will face resistance to such measures from tycoons whose backing the administration has always regarded as a vital political bulwark.
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Sales of business jets have slumped as an uncertain global economy forces companies, oil tycoons and billionaires to tighten their purse strings.
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Despite softening his tone, Lopez Obrador has butted heads with Mexico's business community, calling several tycoons influence traffickers who benefit from corruption.
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His re-election would provide short-term stability for the FLN, the army and business tycoons, and postpone a potentially difficult succession.
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Demand for corporate jets has been subdued as companies, oil tycoons and billionaires tighten their purse strings amid an uncertain global economy.
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As he tamed Russia's tycoons in the early 2000s, Moscow's power-brokers wondered whom he would next dispatch to exile or prison.
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But Latin American media markets tend to be small and dominated by tycoons with other businesses, who prize cosy relationships with governments.
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Led by Roman Abramovich, a Russian magnate who bought Chelsea in 2003, the Premier League has become a playground for foreign tycoons.
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Because Silicon Valley "tycoons" are basically juice-swilling hippies who want to make money off of anything and everything under the sun.
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At the same time, the fortunes of tycoons with businesses geared to the domestic market—in tech, property or manufacturing—have soared.
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The three business tycoons, who jointly own nearly 30 percent of Ten, have not commented on their plans for the TV station.
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When oil tycoons consider a rise in EV drivers to be a threat to their wallets, you know EVs are taking off.
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AFP added that there are currently over 100 vineyards owned by Chinese tycoons in Bordeaux, one of France's premier wine-producing regions.
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Tycoons like railcar baron George Pullman, who built the town of Pullman, Illinois, in the 1880s, ruled model towns with paternalistic values.
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Oil Sheikhs and Russian tycoons alike are spending their holidays on massive yachts with swimming pools, basketball courts, and even concert halls.
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Some have even benefited by scooping up assets from the less reliable tycoons, investing in booming sectors, and pleading for state subsidies.
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Some have blamed banks for going too easy on corporate tycoons, and do not want taxpayers propping up the struggling banking sector.
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Navalny has named Abramovich and Usmanov as prime targets if May follows through on threats to strip Russian tycoons of their assets.
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China's rise in political power and wealth has created a new generation of business tycoons whose clout and cash can open doors.
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Fellow tycoons Dhanin Chearavanont through his flagship Charoen Pokphand Group and Tos Chirathivat via the Central Group are also in the hunt.
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The advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, includes many tycoons and other business leaders and will start meeting on Saturday.
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The railroad tycoons seem right out of Silicon Valley, and the deep cynicism of the era would take effortless root on Twitter.
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Like many of today's tech tycoons, he has said his mission is changing the world and satisfying customers rather than getting rich.
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"John Chamberlain: Baby Tycoons" will be on view at Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, New York, through October 19, 33, hauserwirth.
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Beijing is also increasing its control over Taiwanese mass media via the ownership of outlets owned by pro-China tycoons, Kurlantzick said.
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Memphis Meats has received investment from business tycoons Bill Gates and Richard Branson, as well as multinational corporations Cargill and Tyson Foods.
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Until 2016, PrivatBank had been owned by one of the country's wealthiest tycoons, Ihor Kolomoisky, who has challenged the nationalisation in court.
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"AI will make phenomenal companies and tycoons faster, and it will also displace jobs faster, than computers and the internet," Lee says.
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Those individual experiments covered putative politicians and business tycoons, persons male and female, and the use of both written statements and television advertisements.
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It's not just a question of figuring out a way to reconcile the interests of a couple of companies or big business tycoons.
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"They're both real estate moguls, tycoons, and businesspeople," she said of the Bluths and the Trumps during an interview with The Daily Beast.
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There is another throwback to the past, too, in the fact that Hong Kong's tycoons united behind Mrs Lam (they disliked Mr Leung).
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Like all rich countries, it, too, now has tycoons who threaten to invest abroad if the government does not cut their tax bills.
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In late September Joko Widodo, Indonesia's president, reportedly held a dinner for tycoons, at which they were warned to come clean or else.
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Pillars of the pro-establishment camp include tycoons, old-time leftists and rural clan leaders from villages and territories outside the city centre.
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Tycoons who had once fobbed off bankers are now getting turfed out of companies they had held onto for decades despite repeated defaults.
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Today's tycoons should visit his eccentric gallery for a reminder of the pitfalls of seeking to hold on too tight, for too long.
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Among the high-profile people who promised to donate to the rebuilding effort were luxury goods tycoons Bernard Arnault and François-Henri Pinault.
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By placing the Meachums in a central role, showrunner Scott Buck (Dexter) turned Iron Fist into a chilly boardroom drama about business tycoons.
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More than 200 people, from business tycoons to party leaders, have been implicated in the scandal, and their numbers are expected to grow.
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He admires tycoons who thrived in office, such as Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai prime minister, and praises the showmanship of Donald Trump.
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BUSINESS LINKS Beyond his everyman image, Zelenskiy has faced scrutiny over his business connections to one of Ukraine's most powerful tycoons, Ihor Kolomoisky.
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HONG KONG — At Hong Kong's graft-busting commission, Rebecca Li was a star, helping to bring corrupt tycoons and bent officials to justice.
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The rise and fall of Batista is dramatically rendered in "Brazillionaires," Alex Cuadros's enjoyable, deeply reported account of Brazil's outsize collection of tycoons.
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When startups seemed to come from nowhere, gain millions of users overnight, and make their founders and employees wealthier than old-school tycoons?
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But as China grew, Hong Kong tycoons like Mr. Li faded in importance and a new generation of mainland Chinese businesses sprang up.
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Some of Hong Kong's ultrarich business tycoons are also growing weary of the protests and the disruption (read: loss of profits) they're causing.
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Many South Koreans saw that decision as the latest example of the judiciary's soft-glove treatment of tycoons found guilty of serious crimes.
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In a town of tycoons, Lai is the only multi-millionaire who seems prepared to openly jeopardize his fortune for Hong Kong's freedom.
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Mr. Putin, who has ravaged businesses of critical Russian tycoons, has not touched Mr. Abramovich's Russian businesses, which include oil and other interests.
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Recent research, however, suggests that the decline in labour's fortunes is explained in most rich countries by exorbitant returns to homeowners, not tycoons.
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In towns where communist-era murals watch over crumbling pavement, I found geeks, tycoons, and visionaries—the libertarians of the old Eastern Bloc.
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Recent appearances in the state-controlled news media included meetings with leading tycoons including Jack Ma of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant.
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The founders helped kindle something of a rage among Moscow tycoons for building private art museums, with about 10 open or under construction.
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Local tycoons are also belatedly recognising that rampant inequality, as evidenced by sky-high property prices, is partly to blame for the turmoil.
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Despite that small number, the minority is resented because of its perceived economic success; many of the nation's wealthiest tycoons are ethnically Chinese.
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Booms in finance and technology can concentrate wealth in a few hands, such as South Korea's chaebol chipmakers or Hong Kong's property tycoons.
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Combined, the two tycoons have spent roughly $200 million on ad buys, Advertising Analytics, a firm that monitors ad campaign purchases, told NPR.
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These 500 tycoons increased their net worth by $853 billion to a combined $4.6 trillion since November 8, according to the daily ranking.
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Tycoons, international firms, local authorities and individuals have promised financial and expert help - with a total of nearly 900 million euros pledged by Wednesday.
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I mean, here I am, some kid who graduated from a New England boarding school with the kids of senators, diplomats, and energy tycoons.
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Algeria's wealthiest businessman and four other tycoons close to Bouteflika were arrested this week as part of an anti-graft investigation, state media said.
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He already enjoys the backing of deep-pocketed endowments and of tycoons like Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce, and Peter Thiel, a noted investor.
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It boasts the English language, good schools and, ironically, a respected legal system (which shields tycoons against the arbitrary plunder they suffer at home).
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Now it's equal parts Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, a Lorde music video, and whatever previous murder mysteries there have been about maple syrup tycoons.
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In the 1980s raiders such as James Goldsmith terrorised boardrooms while private-equity tycoons launched buy-outs, most famously of RJR Nabisco in 1988.
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The implications are mildly terrifying for the companies, so any tech tycoons reading this column might want to secure a spare pair of trousers.
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In northern Uganda people returning home after being displaced by war found their "empty" fields had been dished out among generals, tycoons and conservationists.
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Mr. Campbell's clients include lawyers, business tycoons and real estate investors who pay him upward of $10,000 a week for his A-list access.
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He's part of China's fu'erdai or second-generation rich -- the sons and daughters of tycoons that are best known for flaunting their decadent lifestyles.
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The regulator is also caught between the city's tycoons, a wall of companies and capital from mainland China, and an irascible retail investor market.
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If he does, that would mean short-term stability for the elites of FLN, army and business tycoons to postpone a potentially controversial succession.
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Wall Street continues to be controversial in America but its tycoons feature more prominently in populist politicians' stump speeches than in the billionaire rankings.
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He received maximum donations from tech tycoons, Election Day well wishes from celebrities and an absolutely legendary endorsement from the Baltimore filmmaker John Waters.
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"We have a policy that we can leave the past of these tycoons alone, but they must not be doing wrongdoing again," he said.
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The 6-bedroom home's been on the market since March, but real estate tycoons like Ellen don't have to wait to buy new property.
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He is accused of accepting bribes from several media tycoons including expensive gifts and overwhelmingly positive media coverage in exchange for lucrative official favors.
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In 2003, the attempt to push through the national security legislation collapsed when one of those tycoons, James Tien, grew alarmed by mass demonstrations.
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The Kremlin has already said it will help the sanctioned tycoons and analysts said it could prevail on a state bank to step in.
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Where once railroad tycoons built massive mansions on Nob Hill in San Francisco, now cable cars take tourists past private clubs and luxury hotels.
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A subtler method is to cultivate tycoons who depend on the state for permits or contracts, and urge them to buy up media outlets.
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By publicly shaming American tycoons, Ms. Warren is attempting to show just how aggressively she will fight what she portrays as the establishment class.
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Thousands of former Daewoo employees, business tycoons and politicians paid tribute on Tuesday and Wednesday at a funeral altar set up at the hospital.
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"You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch," Johnson said, in reference to the central London district favored by Russian tycoons.
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Details: The cases involve allegations of giving or offering lucrative official favors to several media tycoons in exchange for favorable coverage or expensive gifts.
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Russian tycoons Mikhail Prokhorov and Viktor Vekselberg sold a 3 percent stake in Rusal via an accelerated bookbuilding for $315 million earlier in October.
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The change comes less than a month after the inclusion of Deripaska and dozens of tycoons on a U.S. government list of Russian oligarchs.
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And meanwhile, the nation will be governed by oil oligarchs, climate change deniers and Goldman Sachs tycoons brought in to do the real work.
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The group also includes some Hong Kong tycoons, including Victor Li, the son of Li Ka-shing, the billionaire chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings.
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The rhinos are a herd of Chinese tycoons who have used a combination of political connections and raw ambition to create sprawling global conglomerates.
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Many others were bought by shell companies that don't reveal their true owners, meant to allow overseas tycoons to stash money out of sight.
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Street food is a rare egalitarian aspect of life in the city, one that is equally beloved by billionaire property tycoons and taxi drivers.
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As well as preventing "financial doping", whereby tycoons purchase clubs as vanity projects and pump cash into them, FFP aimed to reduce football's debt problem.
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Held at a venue-turned-discotheque on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip, the 500 guests included Hollywood's elite, industry tycoons, rockstars, athletes, and top influencers.
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Made jittery by the unrest, some Hong Kong tycoons have started to move personal wealth offshore while residents have begun to look for homes elsewhere.
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The three tycoons now plan to put a financing facility in place to ensure that Ten has sufficient cash to continue to operate, Korda said.
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A similar question has been put to Vincent Bolloré, one of France's most successful tycoons, whose sprawling interests range from African logistics to French media.
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Long before Elon Musk started making dad jokes about colonizing space to build "Mars bars," three men from Yemen proclaimed themselves Martian real estate tycoons.
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It is likely to face stern resistance, not least from Indonesia's tycoons, who do not want to see the value of their Jakarta penthouses fall.
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But even in an institution where business tycoons have been known to brazenly hand out checks on the Senate floor, that's easier said than done.
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The topic has prompted heated debate on social media, with many tech tycoons and entrepreneurs weighing on the merits of long and stressful working hours.
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There were more than 12, less than 20 men—all, at the time, over 50 years old, all millionaires, tycoons from New York real estate.
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Oil ministers and energy tycoons from Moscow to Riyadh hinted that production cuts — or at least a meeting to discuss them — are on the table.
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Critics say any hikes would extract more from the segment of salaried employees that already pays while leaving influential business tycoons outside the tax net.
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THE past 20 years have been a golden age for crony capitalists—tycoons active in industries where chumminess with government is part of the game.
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The result is an increased acceptance of buyout groups in a region well known for cosy behind-the-scenes dealmaking between established tycoons and companies.
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That Mr Rajan forced them to disclose this fact will not have endeared him to politically connected tycoons now being badgered to repay the banks.
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In the past, the most generous were property tycoons who gave to educational outfits, especially elite universities in their home provinces along the wealthy coast.
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The court in Hanoi also sentenced Ha Van Tham, founder of Ocean Group and once one of Vietnam's most high profile tycoons, to life imprisonment.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines may be Magnolia tycoons today, but it wasn't that long ago that the Fixer Upper alums worried they could lose everything.
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It involves oil tycoons who see dollar signs, politicians who seek power, Alaskan natives who wish to preserve their culture and a precious wild place.
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Details: The cases involve allegations of giving or offering lucrative official favors to several news media tycoons in exchange for favorable coverage or expensive gifts.
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At the last minute, a group of Hong Kong tycoons backing the listing of China Telecom got spooked by a financial crisis roiling the region.
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Pro-government politicians in Hong Kong and the mainland's press have criticised the city's property tycoons, shaming them into offering up land for public housing.
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In the wake of the Park scandal, all political parties have vowed to curtail presidential power to pardon chaebol tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes.
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But the firsthand knowledge that the country's tycoons might have of the complex shareholding ties that serve to enrich the political elite had stayed secret.
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The decision is likely to anger many South Koreans who have held weekend rallies calling for Ms. Park's ouster and the arrest of business tycoons.
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Some traders cited Russian tycoons targeted in new U.S. sanctions pulling money out of Switzerland to send it home as another factor pressuring the franc.
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At the last minute, a group of Hong Kong tycoons backing the listing of China Telecom got spooked by a financial crisis roiling the region.
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The case relates to allegations that Mr. Netanyahu offered or gave official favors to multiple media tycoons in exchange for favorable news coverage or gifts.
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His decision to lock up hundreds of tycoons, officials and princes arbitrarily in a gilded Saudi hotel last year in an "anti-corruption campaign" frightened investors.
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Thanks to a disparity of wealth, Brazil's middle class live next to both sprawling favelas riddled with gang violence and the hilltop mansions of oil tycoons.
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The controversy brings together unlikely allies, from ordinary citizens, to international chambers of commerce, judges, and tycoons, united by their distrust of the mainland legal system.
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The present troubles have their roots in 2005-12, when state banks went on a lending bender, extending credit to dubious tycoons and to infrastructure projects.
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He has filled his cabinet with swaggering tycoons, such as Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, hoping they can knock heads together harder than career politicians can.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore over concerns about the proposed extradition law, which critics warn could erode the city's international status.
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When the Italian car, food, and media tycoons were at the height of their powers in the 2049s, the world's best players were found in Italy.
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But many self-made tycoons want their children to have the "normal" middle-class upbringings they themselves had, says Charlotte Vangsgaard of ReD Associates, a consultancy.
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In a hopeful development, tycoons once able to hold on to "their" businesses even as banks got stiffed seem likely to be forced to cede control.
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Everyone from Silicon Valley tycoons to biohackers are dabbling in cognitive performance enhancers known as nootropics, which tout improved cognition by a drop of a pill.
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Third, most tycoons have lost influence in Delhi, as politicians from Mr Modi down realise the toxicity of being seen to be in cahoots with "bollygarchs".
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As recently as January the jeweller in question appeared in a photo of Indian tycoons hobnobbing with Mr Modi at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos.
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Hong Kong's best-known tycoons, such as Li Ka-shing, regularly appeared on the list of cornerstones for Chinese companies that were not yet household names.
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This was preceded by the disciplining of Ren Zhiqiang, one of China's most prominent tycoons, for speaking out online against the party's control of the media.
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Once adept at giving their bankers the runaround, tycoons are now less able to fend off pressure to pay down debt with sales of prize assets.
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Last week, fresh measures from President Donald Trump's administration against Russian tycoons and businesses triggered a sell-off in the ruble and sent stocks cascading lower.
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Washington (CNN)The US business world is full of tycoons who dream of enormous political power, but few billionaires take the plunge into national electoral politics.
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In addition to tech and telecommunications, Trump's campaign received millions in funds from various real estate tycoons, oil barons, and automakers like General Motors and Ford.
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In recent years, Chinese buyers have become the dominant players in Singapore's prime residential property markets, taking over from wealthy tycoons from surrounding Malaysia and Indonesia.
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The replacement of Board president David Berliner and other trustees who are real estate tycoons with a broad cross-section of artists and community organizers. 6.
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Tycoons find it harder to win special dispensation from New Delhi, and transparent auctions have replaced the discretionary approach to awarding licences for telecoms and coal.
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And not just any beach but Carbon Beach, often dubbed "Billionaire's Beach," aptly named for the business tycoons and high-profile celebrities that call it home.
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The extradition bill has also spooked some Hong Kong tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers familiar with the details.
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By the time he started the Baby Tycoons, Chamberlain had packed in more than a half-century of exploring forms, materials, and techniques, and it shows.
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He had brought Russia's business tycoons to heel, and his own allies, mostly former intelligence officers from St. Petersburg, took the helm of Russia's key industries.
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Now some of Hong Kong's biggest property tycoons may also be feeling that they have to defend their interests against red capital on their home turf.
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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk may have good intentions for space today, but what about the astro-tycoons wrestling over trillion-dollar rocks in the future?
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Authorities also worry about "giant crocodiles", a term regulators have started using to describe law-breaking tycoons who circumvent regulations to grab control of other companies.
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The main charges against Mr. Netanyahu also involve a quid pro quo, that he sought favorable political coverage from media tycoons in exchange for official favors.
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Quibbles aside, the organization says that the girls selling these confectioneries could be the business tycoons, tech titans and leaders we'll see in a few years.
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Most of them have now quit, charging that their efforts to combat cronyism and graft have been stymied at every step by entrenched officials and tycoons.
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Li, who fled Japanese-occupied mainland China with his family in 1940, is one of several first generation Hong Kong tycoons, preparing to pass the baton.
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The business tycoons who took a record number of private jets (about 1,500 in total) to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week.
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The debate between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is a debate between tycoons in Silicon Valley, rather than statesmen debating about the future of the world.
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Instead, the quasi-bureaucrats running them are reluctant to restructure loans that are heading for default, lest they be accused of using public funds to aid tycoons.
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Tycoons including Richard Branson milled at the time in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton Hotel along with former political leaders Tony Blair and Nicolas Sarkozy, and columnist Arianna Huffington.
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Officials said that while Prince Alwaleed and other tycoons had agreed to financial settlements after admitting to unspecified "violations", they could resume their business much as before.
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Others complain that it has let tycoons and politicians evict a jovial medley of religions and classes from the old city to grab its best real estate.
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Xiao's disappearance was also related to Beijing's campaign to investigate tycoons involved in a mainland stock market rout in 2015, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Washington said at the time that he and a number of fellow tycoons were profiting from their association with a Kremlin conducting "malign activities" around the globe.
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But his financial objectives are probably identical to those of carpet or chewing-gum tycoons: to raise cash, to get a high valuation and to keep control.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Fredrik Lundberg, one of Sweden's most powerful tycoons, and former finance minister Anders Borg have been questioned by prosecutors as suspects in a bribery probe.
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After the election Mr Trump held summits with tycoons, televised live from the boardroom at Trump Tower, and later from his new HQ in the Oval Office.
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In America they have produced a massive backlash against Mr Putin, and personal sanctions against his cronies and tycoons, regardless of their formal affiliation with the state.
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He forced banks to tackle billions of dollars in distressed corporate loans, discomfiting powerful tycoons accustomed to fending off their creditors through politician friends in New Delhi.
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Bouteflika's political survival may hinge on how the elite, made up of members of his FLN party, the military and business tycoons - react if protests keep growing.
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It was painted as hypocritical, given Bernie Sanders' penchant for railing against the income inequality engendered by Wall Street tycoons, for whom questionably large payouts are routine.
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Democrats have long railed against the dangers of unchecked campaign donations, tying the Citizens United decision together with the influence of energy tycoons Charles and David Koch.
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" The novel is described as "a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami — a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for The Magic City.
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That has earned Mr Rajan the enmity of a few (not least some of India's most powerful tycoons) who had hoped their debts would be quietly forgotten.
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Mr Rajan's efforts to clean up the country's banks may have turned some of India's tycoons against him; his star power may also have annoyed government figures.
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That has been replaced by a more sober atmosphere where the Kremlin frowns on the flaunting of wealth and only Kremlin-connected tycoons make the biggest fortunes.
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Foreign tycoons who paid homage to Trump after Son include Foxconn founder Terry Gou and Alibaba boss Jack Ma, who are both close business partners of Son.
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The ruling elite, made up of members of Bouteflika's FLN party, the military and business tycoons, has dug in its heels, warning of the prospect of unrest.
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Ultimately, Putin must decide whom to support: a ministry of finance insisting on budget austerity, or oil tycoons led by his closest ally, Rosneft head Igor Sechin.
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In practice, that means China-born tycoons with ties to the Communist Party have exploited Australia's weak campaign finance laws to donate millions to Australian political parties.
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Other businessmen followed, to Mr. Mandela's delight, according to an authorized biography describing how he stayed at the estates of white tycoons and accepted gifts from them.
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As China's economy matures, officials are concerned by the mountains of debt amassed by local governments, big state-run companies and high-flying tycoons like Mr. Jia.
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It sits atop a pyramid of power composed by several strata of National Liberation Front apparatchiks, state officials and business tycoons connected by family or regional ties.
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Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS and John Chamberlain Baby Tycoons continue at Hauser & Wirth (32 East 69th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through October 19.
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Ukraine has made considerable progress since 2014 in draining pools of corruption in the gas business, a major source of income for crooked tycoons under Mr. Yanukovych.
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It is not often that a single man, even if he is one of the world's most powerful tycoons, likens himself to a country provoked into war.
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Hong Kong residents advanced up the economic ladder, as sweatshop laborers rose to become bosses with factories on the mainland and even real estate or shipping tycoons.
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In other words, tycoons would try to structure their incomes to pay not at a 39.6 percent top personal rate but at a 15 percent corporate rate.
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Mr. Putin, by many accounts, came to enjoy the company of corporate chieftains who, like Russia's domesticated tycoons, learned not to risk their prospects over policy criticism.
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The extradition bill, now suspended but not scrapped, has also spooked some tycoons into moving their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers familiar with the details.
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Prince Alwaleed was speaking in an exclusive interview with Reuters at his suite in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel, transformed into a luxurious prison to hold tycoons and royals.
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Commending Li's long laid-out succession plan, unusual among tycoons in a region where discussing death is often viewed as unlucky, Gulliver praised Victor for being extremely capable.
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Since China took control of Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, the city's leaders have been selected by an elite committee made up mostly of pro-Beijing tycoons.
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They track the political and economic relationships between New York's museums and major real estate developments (for instance, Hudson Yards) with arms manufacturers, corporate tycoons, and pharmaceutical dynasties.
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Colombia's best-known clan is the Char family of business tycoons who dominate politics in the coastal province of Atlantico and its capital, the port city of Barranquilla.
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In the mid-1990s control over natural-resource firms passed to the oligarchs, a powerful group of business tycoons who emerged from the rubble of the Soviet Union.
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The unrest has sent jitters across the Asian financial centre, prompting some Hong Kong tycoons to start moving personal wealth offshore and residents to look for homes elsewhere.
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The extradition bill has spooked some of Hong Kong's tycoons to start moving their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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The question is whether Mr Wu's takedown is a sign that all tycoons, no matter how well connected, are now vulnerable—or whether his protection had simply evaporated.
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While not exactly a biography, the main character Charles Foster Kane was based on American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick.
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But then again why would he risk everything he had ever achieved in exchange for expensive cigars and other bribes he allegedly received from Israeli and foreign tycoons?
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Lenders loth to foreclose on welshing tycoons are being left with no choice; a dozen deeply distressed firms were shunted into insolvency proceedings by the authorities in June.
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It was more like a bunker—one that saw a succession of tense meetings with the same tycoons, ministers, and journalists who had nodded along to Soros' broadside.
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Mr Rajan had forced the banks to recognise the holes in their balance-sheets, indirectly taking on the tycoons who had benefited from the forbearance of bank bosses.
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Most of the 10 parties that have seats in the country's Parliament and cabinet are run by political dynasties, former Army generals or business tycoons who bankroll them.
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These tycoons, who are often likened to the robber barons of America's Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, would go on to amass vast fortunes.
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Like most of the country's elite made up of FLN leaders, military officers and business tycoons, Bouteflika is a veteran of Algeria's 1954-1962 independence war against France.
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But Trump, a self-described billionaire who made a fortune in New York real estate and entertainment, has stocked his cabinet with Wall Street bankers and industry tycoons.
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Driving it home: One message none of the tech tycoons missed was the 18-year prison sentence meted out in March to Wu Xiaohui, founder of Anbang Insurance.
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They also blame the oligopolistic dominance of tycoons such as Li for social ills including a gaping wealth gap, extensive harbor reclamation, heritage demolition and extortionate property prices.
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His is the latest in a string of high-profile bribery cases involving officials and tycoons as Beijing reins in China's financial sector and tamps down risky lending.
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Setting up shop in Kiev, he became entangled in a murky constellation of Russian and Ukrainian business tycoons and politicians, notably Mr. Yanukovych, the president ousted in 2014.
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Forbes magazine said on Thursday it was excluding all Saudi Arabian tycoons from its annual list of the world's richest people after a crackdown on corruption last year.
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"Ministers felt it necessary to do their bidding, directors general considered every request of theirs as coming from the prime minister, business tycoons sought them out," he wrote.
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For decades governments have tolerated lawbreaking tycoons so long as their companies bolstered the nation's economic might — or, in the case of the Olympics, the nation's global prestige.
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For him, betrayal is everywhere, in every aspect of his life: He's part of the city's poor underclass, oppressed by rich tycoons like Thomas Wayne, father of Bruce.
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This has long been a city of tycoons, with a few families holding sway over the supermarkets, drugstores and real estate market, limiting competition and keeping prices high.
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He has written a new nonfiction book about the world of "reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers," and it's not about America, it's about India.
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Hariri's resignation came as more than 200 people, including 11 Saudi princes, current and former ministers and tycoons, were arrested in an anti-corruption purge in Saudi Arabia.
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Many of the tycoons are of Chinese descent, even though they only make up just over 1 percent of Indonesia's 250 million people, according to the latest census data.
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The chase has enraged and captivated India at a time when the public increasingly believes the country's debt-laden government banks are enriching its flashiest, most corrupt business tycoons.
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The extradition bill has spooked some of Hong Kong's tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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Beyond the public outcry, the extradition bill has spooked some Hong Kong tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers familiar with the details.
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From The New York Times:In the wake of the Park scandal, all political parties have vowed to curtail presidential power to pardon chaebol tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes.
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"Meritorious benefactors", among them tycoons and government officials (the distinction not always clear), contribute to Mr Hun Sen's beloved projects and are awarded ornate titles and sinecures in return.
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He and other tycoons face a challenge to get back into the swing of running their financial empires in the uncertainty hanging over the business community since their detention.
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Mr Rajan had forced the banks to recognise the holes in their balance-sheets, indirectly taking on the tycoons who had benefited from the largesse of compliant bank bosses.
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Earlier this month Ukraine expanded sanctions on Russian companies and entities to mirror those of the United States, which has blacklisted tycoons and allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Joe Biden did help try to push out a Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokhin who has been widely accused of being easy on corrupt businesses and tycoons in Ukraine.
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She holidays not on tycoons' yachts but on hiking trips to the Alps, like Angela Merkel, another cautiously dutiful centre-right European leader to whom the comparisons draw themselves.
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It also curtailed the president's power to grant special pardons, which critics said has long been abused to free business tycoons convicted of bribery and other white-color crimes.
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In the process, he became one of Britain's most successful, and most eccentric, retail tycoons, worth 522 million pounds ($665 million), according to this year's Sunday Times Rich List.
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In "Pom Poko," directed by Takahata, the tanuki defend their woodlands from the rapacious plans of real estate tycoons by turning to the age-old art of shape shifting.
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Mr. Zelensky has promised to rein in the business tycoons known as oligarchs, who have long held outsize sway in Ukraine with influential media holdings and deep political ties.
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In the mid-1990s, media tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, and others, worried that a communist might win the 1996 presidential election and move to eviscerate private property.
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The chase has captivated many people in India, where some feel that the allegations show how taxpayer-owned banks are footing the bill for the lifestyles of flashy tycoons.
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It might be tough for a New York real estate mogul, accustomed to selling his luxury high-rises to corporate tycoons and global investors through good times and bad.
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President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild the Gothic masterpiece, and within the first 24 hours after the fire began, tycoons, companies and local authorities stepped forward with large donations.
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The court's decision is likely to anger many South Koreans who have held weekend rallies calling for Ms. Park's ouster and the arrest of business tycoons on corruption charges.
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The documents showed that Mossack Fonseca has worked with Ponzi schemers, diamond traders, members of FIFA, property tycoons, Saudi kings, wealthy art collectors, drug kingpins, and Ukrainian oligarchs alike.
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The authorities will bring to justice "big crocodiles" — referring to Chinese tycoons — who are allegedly unfairly profiteering from the stock market, the chairman of the CSRC said earlier this month.
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Some tycoons began moving funds out of Hong Kong to Singapore in advance of the bill's passage, Reuters reported, a hint of the outflows before the 1997 handover from Britain.
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At its peak, 26-year-old Jet operated over 120 planes and well over 600 daily flights, flying Bollywood film-stars, politicians and business tycoons across India and the world.
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Chamberlain's tabletop steel sculptures — the Baby Tycoons, made during the final decades of his life — exist on a separate plane from the fragile works on paper spanning Hesse's abbreviated career.
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Several times its tycoons have ridden to its rescue: to supply its water, to build a bridge to connect it with oilfields, and to buy the land for its airport.
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But tech's tycoons, who badly want us to believe they and their companies exist to make the world a better place, often have trouble seeing past their own good intentions.
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Although few would shed any tears for corrupt tycoons or crooked officials, the chances of any of them getting a genuine opportunity to prove their innocence are all but zero.
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Both tycoons have teamed up several times in the past, the most recent being a joint effort to buy ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co for $23.2 billion three years ago.
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Liu said earlier this month that CSRC would take down law-breaking financial tycoons he called "giant crocodiles", saying they will not be allowed to take advantage of retail investors.
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Beyond his everyman image, Zelenskiy has faced scrutiny over his business connections to one of Ukraine's most powerful tycoons, Ihor Kolomoisky, owner of the TV station that brought Zelenskiy fame.
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A recently passed (but not yet operational) bankruptcy law will give banks power to foreclose on defaulting borrowers, many of them tycoons who have historically run rings around their bankers.
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Suning's rise to prominence is all part of China's power-grab in world soccer, with Chinese clubs paying top dollar for star players and Chinese tycoons buying clubs across Europe.
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The companies springing up to nourish the animals created fortunes for domestic tycoons: Bao Hongxing, chief executive of China's largest pig-feed producer Twins Group, is worth an estimated $22006bn.
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Until recently, courts routinely suspended the sentences of tycoons convicted of bribery, embezzlement or tax evasion, citing the potential impact on their corporate empires — and, by extension, the country's economy.
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Secret deals The growth of offshore banking in the late 20th century created new opportunities for resource tycoons to cover their tracks, a practice laid bare in the Panama Papers.
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" Burnett and Trump have licensed the "Apprentice" format to dozens of other countries, and Burnett once noted that, increasingly, tycoons cast in the Trump role are "people with political aspirations.
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Nazis even collaborated with Hollywood tycoons, which resulted in the cancellation of films deemed critical of the Reich; studios agreed to heavily censor other films to guarantee their German distribution.
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Since President Trump skipped last night's black-tie, off-camera Alfalfa Dinner, Vice President Pence did the honors before the biggest annual gathering of tycoons, national leaders and elder statesmen.
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That still ranks him behind the cycle's most prolific donors, the Las Vegas casino tycoons Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, who are motivated largely by their hawkish views on Israel's defense.
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This provision would aid a small group of developers, investors and other tycoons who work in professions or industries where it is relatively easy to set up pass-through businesses.
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But other than his admirable stewardship of The Washington Post, he has done conspicuously less to aid humanity than have many other tycoons, even those who command far less wealth.
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It seems America hasn't had this many tycoons at the pinnacle of our political system -- elected, appointed or manipulating from the shadows -- since the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.
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In 1988, business tycoons were hauled into a parliamentary hearing to be questioned about millions of dollars they gave to a foundation controlled by the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan.
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It also includes business tycoons and former independence fighters in Algeria's ruling FLN party as well as labor unions in a state-dominated economy sustained by oil and gas production.
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Narrowly, that's meant Trump makes policy that is good for him and his family, like a tax law that's great for the very wealthy, particularly real estate tycoons like him.
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There have been 56 abandoned deals, 39 state-backed acquisitions of commodities firms at frothy prices, and, lately, wild sprees by tycoons scooping up trophies such as hotels and football clubs.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tycoons Mikhail Prokhorov and Viktor Vekselberg are selling a 1.53-percent stake in Russian aluminum giant Rusal via accelerated bookbuilding (ABB), one of their bookrunners said on Tuesday.
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Liu Shiyu, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said last week that his institution would tackle "big crocodiles " – the tycoons pulling the strings behind the scenes in the capital market.
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Some tech tycoons including Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car company and Jeff Bezos of Amazon have mastered the art of running public firms on long-term horizons.
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In November Mr Ma's halo in America slipped when it was revealed he was a Communist Party member, like many Chinese tycoons (he is due to retire from Alibaba this year).
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For now, we may as well revel in the fact that it takes less than a year for tech tycoons to mimic the ambitions of sci-fi villains in real life.
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With membership of more than 100m and with tycoons queuing for Mr Modi's favour, the BJP last year sucked in four times more donations than the next five parties put together.
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Total's pledge joins that of billionaire businessman Bernard Arnault's family and his LVMH luxury goods group and other French industry tycoons who have promised funds for the rebuilding of the cathedral.
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Trump is racist and demagogic, but he's also secular and focused on workers, not the Wall Street tycoons and religious right that have driven Republican policy for the past three decades.
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The aged financier has a tradition of hosting a dinner at the World Economic Forum, where he regales tycoons, ministers, and journalists with his thoughts about the state of the world.
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Its founders included Marshall Field, Erastus Corning and Joseph Lawrence, then mayor of New York, while its early clients included Gilded Age tycoons such as William Waldorf Astor and Oliver Harriman.
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These include corrupt politician William "Boss" Tweed, toy store founder F.A.O. Schwarz, piano maker Henry Steinway, business tycoons Charles Pfizer and William Colgate, painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and composer Leonard Bernstein.
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Bloomingdale was a high-octane doyenne of the Social Register whose friendships — many remarkable for their longevity — encompassed presidents and princes, tycoons and leaders of government, entertainment, publishing and the arts.
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The petition was signed by 413 prominent citizens, including the Supreme Court's chief justice, Melville Fuller; the future president William McKinley; and the tycoons J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
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Right before signing up with Trump in spring 2016, Manafort had just wrapped up a decade working closely with powerful Ukrainian and Russian tycoons broadly aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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During the winter, the former French colony draws tycoons on mega-yachts, talk show hosts, supermodels and A-list celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Paul McCartney, Harrison Ford, Beyoncé́ and Billy Joel.
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Its staid tycoons are almost incapable of the flashy self-promotion common among the Russian oligarchs, and they have embraced American-style entrepreneurship with an enthusiasm rarely found elsewhere in Europe.
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Li and his fellow Hong Kong tycoons are under mounting pressure from Beijing to speak out against the protests, which present the most serious challenge to Communist Party rule since Tiananmen.
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The doll's emergence has been a boon for Neal Hoffman, the creator of Moshe the Mensch, which appeared on "Shark Tank," a TV show on which tycoons bet on new products.
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But the excitement in 2017 turned to shock a few days later when Prince Mohammed used the Ritz as a five-star prison for Saudi princes, ministers and tycoons accused of corruption.
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Now goods and services that used to be confined to a handful of tycoons are available to the millionaire or pretend-millionaire next door, thanks to the magic of the sharing economy.
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That was the case the last two years when she attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a conclave for the world's most powerful leaders and tycoons.
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ALGIERS, April 24 (Reuters) - Four brothers from the Kouninef family - tycoons close to Algeria's former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika - have been placed in temporary custody by a judge, Ennahar TV reported on Wednesday.
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Rather than banning independent media, as despots might have done a generation ago, he slaps spurious fines or tax bills on their owners, forcing them to sell their businesses to loyal tycoons.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Four brothers from the Kouninef family - tycoons close to Algeria's former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika - have been placed in temporary custody by a judge, private channel Ennahar TV reported on Wednesday.
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He was previously a lawyer for Ihor Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine's most powerful tycoons, whose business ties to Zelenskiy have been under scrutiny since the start of Zelenskiy's election campaign this year.
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The sneers of New York tycoons who considered Trump a fraud, and of their media friends, couldn't drown out the volume of the television, of The Apprentice and later The Celebrity Apprentice.
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No one embodied these Gilded Age tycoons more than J. P. Morgan, the financier who used his wealth and connections to create industrial Goliaths like US Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation.
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Also on Tuesday, one of China's best-known tycoons, Yu Minhong, issued a profuse apology for his "extremely wrong" and "inappropriate" remarks about women at a business forum in Shanghai last weekend.
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Some Hong Kong tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore before June amid concerns over proposed extradition legislation which would have allowed local people to be sent to mainland China for trial.
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Experts concluded that the piece was likely produced in the 19th century, when Renaissance-style furniture was all the rage among American industrialist tycoons—prompting many fakes to voyage across the Atlantic.
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Known as the billionaire boîte for its high-profile clientele, Mirko's was much beloved by locals and tycoons alike, and three decades qualifies as an eternity in the mercurial Hamptons restaurant scene.
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Even a partial dismantling of Tomorrow's business empire, though, would take the aggressive government behavior a step further than previous warnings or punishments, and raise concerns for other tycoons and their companies.
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"Lula's dealings with construction tycoons and ranchers have nothing in common with his militant origins as a leftist," said Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a columnist for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
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Shares in Rusal came under pressure earlier in October after two of its other shareholders - tycoons Mikhail Prokhorov and Viktor Vekselberg - sold a 3 percent stake in the company for $315 million.
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Prince Alwaleed's predicament suggests Saudi tycoons who have long been content to focus on amassing huge profits must now consider whether the government's anti-corruption drive could stop them in their tracks.
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Vivendi has been a hostile Mediaset shareholder since the tycoons who control them, Vincent Bollore and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, fell out in 2016 over an aborted pay TV deal.
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The cases against Mr. Netanyahu involve allegations of giving or offering lucrative official favors to several media tycoons in exchange for favorable news coverage or gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The charges involve allegations that Netanyahu accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts in return for political favors and performed favors for Israeli media tycoons in exchange for favorable news coverage.
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Sitting on the leather sofa in his office in one of Moscow's most prestigious commercial addresses, one of the tycoons who gave up his residency told Reuters he made the move reluctantly.
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If Warren is the nominee, then, a significant number of tycoons will indeed go for Trump; better to put democracy at risk than to countenance a challenge to their imperial self-esteem.
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Yet tycoons that funded the last big push around 2008, when growth was booming and supply shortages in energy and other areas were expected, are in no hurry to jump in again.
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And he also was the lawyer for Mafia dons, an array of business tycoons and Donald Trump, so that the whole milieu of New York at that time was inextricably linked together.
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The charges involve allegations that Netanyahu accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts in return for political favors and performed favors for Israeli media tycoons in exchange for favorable news coverage.
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Many pundits, critics, and political opponents like Mmusi Maimane, leader of the biggest opposition party Democratic Alliance, fear that local business tycoons and friends of Zuma will bank on state-financed activities.
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Linton married Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs exec, in June at a ceremony attended by Wall Street tycoons, President Donald Trump and most of his Cabinet, with Vice President Mike Pence officiating.
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Boetema can astrally project herself to other worlds, a nifty gift that comes in handy when her younger brother, Inotu, finds himself in a hairy situation involving a cyborg and some shady tycoons.
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In an industry long-dominated by imperious tycoons intent on amassing power—think of Rupert Murdoch, or Viacom's Sumner Redstone in his heyday—Mr Bewkes has shrunk a content empire, not expanded it.
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Months later, as part of an anti-corruption drive, hundreds of Saudi princes and tycoons were locked up in a luxury hotel in Riyadh until they surrendered a big chunk of their assets.
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Tycoons have the upper hand in negotiations with their lenders because they know that red tape, patronage and antiquated legal systems make it all but impossible to seize the assets of defaulting firms.
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The extradition bill has so spooked some in Hong Kong that some of the territory's tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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Beyond the public outcry, the extradition bill had spooked some of Hong Kong's tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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Though companies made money, there was little in the way of profiteering—bad memories from World War I, Wilson says, led to "robust profit controls," which were mostly accepted by America's industrial tycoons.
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Earlier this year ABC released a documentary and podcast titled "The Dropout"—like many tech tycoons, Ms Holmes dropped out of university to run a business—which featured testimony from the Theranos deposition.
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Beyond the public outcry, the extradition bill has spooked some of Hong Kong's tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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The fitness tycoons are urging fans to go to Omaze's website to sign up and choose either Globo Gym's Purple Cobras or Average Joe's for a chance to play dodgeball with Stiller himself.
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Whether it's Khloe's smash hit denim line, Kim's video game, or Kylie's best-selling cosmetics line, whether you love them or hate them, you have to admit these sisters are veritable business tycoons.
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His position on the airport and commitment to review contracts signed with oil majors under an energy reform in recent years, along with high-profile sparring with some Mexican tycoons, worry some investors.
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Tech tycoons can be well-rounded people, too.) You can watch the Bubbleproof trailer above, and we'll have the premiere of the epic, super-sized first episode (12 whole minutes!) at Disrupt SF.
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While most pharma tycoons would slink away from the spotlight after a flogging like Shkreli endured, he took the bad-boy image and ran with it, flaunting his trollish behavior in the media.
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She also received backing from many of the city's powerful property tycoons, but the richest of them all, Li Ka-shing, has refrained from publicly throwing his support behind any candidate so far.
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The conviction, despite his unexpected release, appears to mark the end of an era in Russian business when displays of fabulous riches were common and tycoons were self-made through wheeling and dealing.
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Eurasian Bank belongs to a trio of businessmen - Alexander Machkevich, Alijan Ibragimov and Patokh Chodiev - best known as mining and metals tycoons whose core assets are also located in the former Soviet republic.
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But State Bank of India's straight-talking, 0003-year-old chairwoman ensured it was the best of an ailing bunch of public-sector lenders and was unafraid to face up to errant tycoons.
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It speaks to a culture of people who live virtual second lives on social platforms, in which Silicon Valley tycoons seriously entertain the idea that our world is actually a "Matrix"-like simulation.
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The case against Axact, which at first seemed a rare instance in which tycoons with powerful connections were being held to criminal account, has increasingly appeared in recent months to be in jeopardy.
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"The policy on disclosure of short positions is coming from the government who are under pressure from tycoons who don't like people being critical of their companies and shorting their shares," he said.
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People who used to come here now shop online, or have moved on to bigger, shinier, newer shopping malls where only international chains and rich local tycoons can afford to rent a space.
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Student Challenge: Have students look for evidence in The Times for whether today's Silicon Valley tycoons are robber barons reinvented, and whether the mammoth companies they control behave like monopolies from another era.
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Honcharuk's government has also tussled with Ihor Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine's wealthiest tycoons who has been fighting to reverse the 2016 nationalization of PrivatBank, the country's largest lender, which he used to own.
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Encouraged by the slew of acquisitions made by some of the country's most powerful tycoons, many smaller Chinese companies started looking overseas, spurred by China's slowing economic growth to look for new markets.
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Regardless of who has advised Mr. Trump on foreign affairs — generals and corporate tycoons, seasoned pros and amateurs — all have proved powerless before a zest for chaos that would have thwarted George Marshall.
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Any attempt to arrest a leader of the powerful family-controlled conglomerates known as chaebol draws attention in South Korea, where people have grown weary of corrupt ties between the tycoons and government.
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Founded in the 1880s by the tobacco baron Pierre Lorillard IV as a hunting and fishing playground for his fellow tycoons, Tuxedo Park now sits within the town of Tuxedo in Orange County.
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Once largely dominated by local tycoons and companies that can trace their history back to the Opium Wars of the 19th century, the city's economy now depends heavily on money from the mainland.
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Once largely dominated by local tycoons and companies that can trace their history back to the Opium Wars of the 19th century, the city's economy now depends heavily on money from the mainland.
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The U.S energy policy has been a hot button issue for a very long time, especially because big oil, coal tycoons and other energy giants constantly fund political campaigns to protect their interests.
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Zeman said the charges were not an obstacle for Babis - the second richest Czech who has been compared to other tycoons-turned-political leaders Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi - to become prime minister.
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Dozens of decision makers, including Bouteflika's youngest brother Said who served as the de facto ruler in the past years, two intelligence chiefs, two prime ministers and several influential tycoons are behind bars.
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Her photograph was taken, she underwent a quick medical checkup, and she was taken to a solitary cell, of a kind used to hold prominent politicians and business tycoons, to ensure their safety.
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The extradition bill has so spooked some in Hong Kong that some of the territory's tycoons have started moving personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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Gladis Aurora López, the president of the country's ruling party and vice president of Congress, is seen as "one of several top politicians and business tycoons implicated in a violent crackdown," the report said.
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However, even a minor stake in a normal state-owned enterprise would cost dearly, making it beyond reach for most investors and a game only for a few well-connected and deep-pocketed tycoons.
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Liu's comment also follow his warning earlier this month that the CSRC would take down law-breaking financial tycoons he called "giant crocodiles", saying they will not be allowed to profiteer from retail investors.
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But the leader has also been dogged by India's failure to capture the fugitive tycoons Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, all of whom fled the country after being accused of financial crimes.
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Duterte's next move came on August 3, when he swore to take down business tycoons and singled out Roberto Ongpin, chairman of electronic gaming firm PhilWeb and trade minister under former President Ferdinand Marcos.
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President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to rebuild the Gothic masterpiece within five years, and less than 48 hours since the fire began, tycoons, companies, local authorities and individuals have stepped forward with large donations.
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Chinese tech tycoons like Tencent and Alibaba, for instance, have forged the way in mobile payments — it's become pervasive for consumers to pay for everything from rent to transportation through mobile wallets and transfers.
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It is no secret that Russian leaders, including Putin and Sechin, feel more comfortable with fellow oil tycoons than with past American secretaries of state who preached for democracy, human rights, and other "unpleasantries".
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He said that the attacks on him were chiefly motivated by Democrats seeking to undermine the president (signal to Trump) and his agenda (signal to Koch brothers and other tycoons involved in mineral extraction).
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The PSBs gleefully funded infrastructure projects that never got the required permits, mines with an output made much less valuable by slumping commodity prices, and tycoons whose main qualification was friendship with government ministers.
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A onetime physics PhD student in Moscow who dropped out to move to the United States in 1990, Milner is one of a handful of technology tycoons devoting time and money to space exploration.
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When Burnett pitched Trump to NBC, it was as the host of only the first season of "The Apprentice"; after him, new tycoons, including Mark Cuban and Martha Stewart, were supposed to step in.
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They are employed by two of the most ambitious sports tycoons anywhere: Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan from Abu Dhabi and John Henry, the Bostonian financier who also owns the Boston Red Sox.
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Although the anticorruption commission has proved independent enough to take down tycoons and top civil servants, Ms. Li's departure highlights how potentially vulnerable it may be to outside political influence, including from the mainland.
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The Kremlin earlier this month shrugged off reported restrictions on Russian business leaders who take part in the forum and welcomed a move by the organizers to lift a ban on several Russian tycoons.
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The chief argument from these tycoons, financiers and scions is that the government could spend their money more effectively than they could on their own by improving schools, upgrading infrastructure and protecting the environment.
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For Mr. Leng, mortal danger is an acceptable occupational hazard in a country where powerful tycoons operate vast illegal timber concessions inside protected forests — some of Southeast Asia's best, and last, reservoirs of biodiversity.
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Demonstrators have rejected military intervention in civilian matters and want to dismantle the entire ruling elite, which includes veterans from the war of independence against France, army officers, the ruling party and business tycoons.
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Some tycoons in the Chinese-controlled territory have moved funds, or considered doing so, given provisions in the bill that would have allowed China to potentially freeze funds or other assets in the city.
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The protests over a now-suspended extradition bill which would have allowed China to potentially freeze assets in the city, initially sparked talk that Hong Kong tycoons have started moving their personal wealth offshore.
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As for Wall Street tycoons who complain that he was anti-business, Mr. Obama said, "Have you checked where your stocks were when I came to office" and where they were when he left?
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The protests over a now-withdrawn extradition bill — which would have allowed China to potentially freeze assets in the city — initially sparked reports that Hong Kong tycoons started to move their personal wealth offshore.
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A staple of the Hong Kong market in tough times, cornerstones played a critical role following the Asian financial crisis of 1997, when tycoons and sovereign wealth funds were key to getting deals done.
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Tycoons, including Jack Ma of Alibaba and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, have invested in startups that are pursuing energy storage using everything from novel battery designs to molten salt to pressurised water pumped underground.
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Other senior Icelandic government officials and businesspeople were also implicated in the leak, including the chairman of Gunnlaugsson's Progressive Party, at least one senior government adviser, prominent former bankers, and a handful of tycoons.
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Each week on ABC, business tycoons Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Kevin O'Leary hear multiple pitches from hopeful founders trying to launch their product or service to nationwide fame.
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WITHDRAWAL 'WRONG' Beyond the public outcry, the extradition bill had spooked some of Hong Kong's tycoons into starting to move their personal wealth offshore, according to financial advisers, bankers and lawyers familiar with the details.
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It did not help that a pre-Zuma ANC policy of "empowering " black tycoons by encouraging the transfer of large stakes in white-owned firms to them made a handful of ANC bigwigs effortlessly rich.
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Sky-high rents and lack of risk appetite have often been blamed for the bleak startup landscape in Hong Kong, home to world-class universities, a financial services sector and some of Asia's wealthiest tycoons.
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"China needs an international capital pool, which should include world financial institutions as well as various funds, such as special development funds raised in rich Middle Eastern countries, or targeting Southeast Asian tycoons," he said.
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A third source familiar with the campaign, who also asked not to be named, said a senior Trump official has been contacting Wall Street tycoons and other wealthy Republicans for recommendations on lower-level positions.
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In a new study, "Rich People, Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and their Mega Firms", Caroline Freund of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, makes an important contribution to understanding this challenge.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has taken steps in the right direction by holding transparent auctions for public contracts, putting many government services online, and quietly making it harder for tycoons to get special favors.
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This is a big shift for Hong Kong whose one-share-one-vote principle has for 30 years blocked efforts by tycoons from Li Ka-shing to Alibaba's Jack Ma to list alternative shareholding structures.
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His subject comes under threat when the head of the school's "rapacious" economics department, having turned his department into "a networking program for would-be tycoons," takes charge of a campus-wide quality-assessment scheme.
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But he stopped short of stepping down, infuriating Algerians who want to do away with veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France, military officers and business tycoons who have dominated for decades.
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Now, lawmakers and newspaper editorials have accused Mr. Kim of using the same corrupt means the country's traditional business tycoons and conglomerates, known as chaebol, are often accused of using to buy favors and protection.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tycoons Mikhail Prokhorov and Viktor Vekselberg have sold a 3 percent stake in Russian aluminum giant Rusal via an accelerated bookbuilding (ABB) for $20.53 million, one of their bookrunners said on Wednesday.
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That, says Honoré, is further hindering the recovery: "We've got to get rid of that dumb-ass Jones Act that benefits shipping tycoons in New York and Miami," while driving up costs for Puerto Ricans.
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Hong Kong's tycoons and major business leaders have long had an interest — and a say — in maintaining the rule of law in the city, if only because it makes for a more attractive investment climate.
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The intense reactions to Mr. Liu's legal troubles reflect the public's fascination with China's self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country's rise as a global power and its upward social mobility.
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Netanyahu is suspected of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons and of dispensing regulatory favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by a popular news website.
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In the first phase conventional banks, which control about four-fifths of the system's assets and are mostly state-run, lent too freely to infrastructure and industrial projects, sometimes ones backed by well-connected tycoons.
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Lee Jae-yong, one of the most prominent tycoons ever to face trial in the country, is accused of promising $38 million in bribes to a confidante of the president in return for political favors.
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Netanyahu is suspected of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons and of dispensing regulatory favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by a popular news website.
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Saudi security forces have rounded up members of the political and business elite, including princes and tycoons, holding them in Riyadh's opulent Ritz Carlton hotel in what was billed as a war on rampant corruption.
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Scott Pruitt resigned as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday after a series of ethics scandals that exposed, among other things, questionable relationships with some of Washington's elite energy lobbyists and powerful tycoons.
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Li and his fellow Hong Kong tycoons are under mounting pressure from Beijing to speak out against the protests, which present the most serious challenge to Communist Party rule since the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
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During the Umbrella Movement, for example, the beleaguered Leung administration got no help from the Tang Camp, even after the central government summoned Hong Kong tycoons to Beijing and pressed them to denounce the protesters.
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Though startup agility had allowed Silicon Valley to wean itself off the government money funnel, the military still had something irresistible to offer: an ample supply of the interesting questions and problems that tech tycoons lacked.
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On Friday, financial magazine Caixin reported that Liu vowed to apprehend law-breaking financial tycoons he called "giant crocodiles", saying they will not be allowed to "suck the blood" of retail investors in China's capital markets.
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Still more blissfully for spectators, Mr Kushner is the president's son-in-law: the boyish, dashing heir to a family of property tycoons and Democratic donors, and husband to Mr Trump's daughter and trusted counsellor, Ivanka.
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Mark Hanna's close-knit network of manufacturers and railroad tycoons invested huge sums at the start of the 20th century to procure high tariffs and business-friendly Republican governments; they largely got what they paid for.
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The National Rally for Democracy (RND), a member of the ruling coalition, has joined ruling party officials, unions and business tycoons who have abandoned Bouteflika in recent days, after nearly a month of street demonstrations protests.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top securities regulator vowed on Friday to apprehend law-breaking financial tycoons he called "giant crocodiles", saying they will not be allowed to "suck the blood" of retail investors, financial magazine Caixin reported.
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Mr Yang's indictment entangles the judiciary in the sprawling scandal that brought down Park Geun-hye, the previous president, and has implicated business tycoons, intelligence agencies and a grand university, among other pillars of the establishment.
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The event is part of a three-day, eight-fundraiser trip to California for Clinton, where the Democratic nominee is expected to raise millions of dollars from fundraisers with top-flight performers, athletes and tech tycoons.
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Image: Peggy Whitson/NASA Johnson via FlickrWASHINGTON, D.C.—It's 503pm, and the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, which was packed with investors, aerospace tycoons, and scientists just hours ago, has dwindled to a dedicated few.
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Political scientist Chen Daoyin, from Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, said Yang's words were not just a warning to conspiring tycoons but also a signal of how severe Beijing saw the situation had become.
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Air China will use an Airbus A330-200 to fly the route three times a week, easing access for China's fast-growing tourism market to a stretch of Mediterranean coastline frequented by tycoons and celebrities alike.
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The prosecutions of the two executives in Vekselberg's Renova group prompted speculation that the businessman himself could be targeted, suffering the same fate as other prominent tycoons who have fallen from grace under President Vladimir Putin.
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Demonstrators have rejected military intervention in civilian matters and want to dismantle the entire ruling elite, which includes veterans from the 1954-62 war of independence against France, army officers, the ruling party and business tycoons.
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Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui has promised to create an inclusive government of technocrats in a country dominated by veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France, as well as the military and business tycoons.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday it would wait to see if the United States went ahead and imposed sanctions on Russian tycoons under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
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Worldwide, the worth of tycoons in crony industries soared by 385% in 2004-14, to $2 trillion, or a third of total billionaire wealth; much of it (though by no means all) in the emerging world.
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The scandal, known as Operação Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash, has led to the arrest of more than 7003 business tycoons and elected officials, plunging the Brazilian elite into a crisis that continues to unfold.
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By detaining dozens of officials and tycoons, a new anti-corruption body headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to dismantle systems of patronage and kick-backs that have distorted the economy for decades.
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But South Korea's new liberal president, Moon Jae-in, who won a May election, has pledged to rein in the chaebols, empower minority shareholders and end the practice of pardoning tycoons convicted of white-collar crime.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet metals tycoons whose businesses are located in the region of Krasnoyarsk, which the President is visiting today, to discuss local residents' ecological concerns, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
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Li is the most prominent of the city's powerful tycoons or oligarchs to step aside for the next generation, an exclusive peer group that also include Lee Shau-kee of Henderson Land, six months Li's senior.
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Under Mr. al-Bashir, General Hamdan and the army generals became business tycoons who cornered entire sections of the economy, said Suliman Baldo of the Enough Project, which seeks to end atrocities in African conflict zones.
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The WASPs were distinct from other white elites — including the planter class that ruled the South, the regional elites that emerged as the frontier moved westward, the immigrant tycoons who challenged WASP power in the East.
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Many line the blocks around Central Park, some of the most expensive and coveted real estate in the city, and have become second homes for Chinese billionaires, European tycoons and out-of-state hedge fund investors.
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Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean's picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants.
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Far from the crowds of Rome and Milan, and from the Tuscany beloved by hedge fund tycoons, this area had become for them synonymous with the essence of a certain Italian ideal — a rustic, unsullied paradise.
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This past summer, Chinese officials met with the country's two most powerful internet tycoons, Jack Ma of Alibaba and Pony Ma of Tencent, to talk about deeper cooperation between state-owned enterprises and the tech giants.
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Netanyahu, 70, is accused of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons, and of dispensing regulatory favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by a popular news website.
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This past summer, Chinese officials met with the country's two most powerful internet tycoons, Jack Ma of Alibaba and Pony Ma of Tencent, to talk about deeper cooperation between state-owned enterprises and the tech giants.
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Netanyahu is suspected of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons and of dispensing favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by an Israeli newspaper and a website.
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Financial innovation makes new markets and improves the allocation of resources, but Wall Street tycoons also reap huge rewards from winning wasteful arbitrage arms races, skimming off transactions and nickel-and-diming consumers with inscrutable fees.
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PrivatBank, which was nationalized in December 242, and Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau are also investigating whether the bank illegally provided loans to companies linked to two wealthy tycoons who owned the bank before the state takeover.
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The center of the dump, where cranes compact industrial waste, looks like a warzone—a dusty, filthy, deafeningly far cry from the glittery sheen of Hong Kong, where tycoons and traders move money in tall glass towers.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's army chief said on Tuesday he welcomed an anti-graft drive against figures close to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state TV reported, a day after the authorities announced the arrest of five business tycoons.
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The government provides no financial support for parties, and it is hard to build a mass membership when you do not stand for much, so candidates must either fund their own campaigns or seek backing from tycoons.
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The new appointments have fueled speculation that President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption in the financial sector could escalate further after the campaign put China's former top insurance regulator Xiang Junbo and some big tycoons under investigation.
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In past cases when magnates have been prosecuted, some in the Russia business community have said the tycoons were victims of a plot by the Kremlin or by politically connected business rivals - though the authorities deny that.
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The closure of the track marks the end of another of the often grubby old-time gambling businesses that long defined Macau before the arrival of luxury casinos owned by tycoons like the U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
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A letter by billionaire German Larrea, published in Mexican media on Tuesday, refers indirectly to Lopez Obrador, who has accused Larrea of belonging to a group of tycoons seeking to thwart democracy and keep him from power.
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Seven Russian business tycoons and 21 large companies were included in a list of Treasury Department sanctions on Friday in one of Washington's most aggressive responses yet to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election .
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Kaddour's success could hang on whether potential recruits think he can last in his post in a country where regular reshuffles signal shifts in a secretive elite made up of the ruling party, military, intelligence and tycoons.
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Yet while many of Asia's super rich have made the city-state their home, it is not uncommon to spot tycoons and captains of industry catching the bus or queuing for a $3.50 plate of chicken rice.
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He'll be backed up by a handful of experienced journalists, and—aside from trying to uncover the tapes themselves—he'll look into the companies and tycoons who have allegedly fought to keep the damning recordings a secret.
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In New York City, it is not unusual to find a day care center on the ground floor of a brownstone or high-rise, a situation that can force toddlers and tycoons to coexist side by side.
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They became the Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell of the age, swiftly turning the Plaza into a magnet not only for socialites but for movie stars, tycoons and world leaders, with a brisk trade in cosmopolitan charlatans.
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His businesses in Russia, which include oil and other interests, have escaped unscathed under Mr. Putin while those of other tycoons critical of the Kremlin, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Boris Berezovsky, have been ransacked by the state.
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Mr. Netanyahu, who has twice failed to form a new government this year, has denied allegations that he gave or offered lucrative official favors to several news media tycoons in exchange for favorable coverage or expensive gifts.
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When Trump was a businessman in New York, many of his fellow real estate tycoons learned to avoid him at all costs, viewing him as erratic — an assessment that would doubtless ring true to other world leaders.
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Street demonstrations have continued to press demands for a dismantling of the elite of independence veterans, security commanders and business tycoons that have run the major oil and natural gas producer since independence from France in 1962.
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The three years and counting long fistfight between the two ageing media tycoons started after Vivendi ditched an agreement to purchase Mediaset's pay TV arm and then built a 29% stake in the 3 billion euro broadcaster.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has decided to expand sanctions on Russian companies and entities to mirror those of the United States, which has blacklisted tycoons and allies of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday.
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Saudi royalty, politicians, Russian oligarchs, business tycoons, trust fund kids and A-list celebrities have brushed their teeth in this marble bathroom and slept on this suede bed while confronting addictions to everything from cocaine to Xanax.
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She retaliates by calling her husband and having him buy the property on the spot — foreshadowing the more recent buying spree undertaken by Chinese tycoons scooping up western trophy assets, from luxury hotel chains to football clubs.
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Any local support she has comes from the city's elite, the tycoons who profited off the city's yawning inequality and huge influx of Chinese capital, and have kept their noses out of the city's current political crisis.
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Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 74, campaigned as a technocrat who had proven his integrity by being sacked for falling out with powerful business tycoons after just three months serving as prime minister in 2017 under veteran ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The head of Samsung, one of the world's largest conglomerates, was indicted on bribery and embezzlement charges on Tuesday, becoming one of the most prominent business tycoons ever to face trial in South Korea.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Tuesday about a televised speech delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in which he attacked a corruption investigation into his dealings with Israeli media tycoons misstated the length of his address.
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More than 21899 people cheerily accepted the wilderness challenge recently to reach Camp Santanoni, one of many rustic retreats built for 18633th-century tycoons, including Alfred Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan and William Rockefeller, between roughly 21863 and 25.
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The decision to free him, and the release of several other well-known tycoons on Friday, suggested the main part of the corruption probe was winding down after it sent shockwaves through Saudi Arabia's business and political establishment.
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He was one of a number of Chinese tycoons who had moved to Hong Kong and taken up residence in private apartments at the 5-star Four Seasons hotel during Xi's crackdown on corporate excess, the paper said.
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Senior lawmakers said on Friday that Russia's lower house of parliament would consider draft legislation giving the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports, reacting to new U.S. sanctions on Russian tycoons and officials.
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Russia's lower house of parliament is to consider draft legislation that would give the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports, reacting to new U.S. sanctions on a group of Russian tycoons and officials.
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On Monday, the rouble suffered its biggest daily fall in more than three years and stocks in major Russian companies also slid, as investors reacted to a new round of U.S. sanctions targeting some of Russia's biggest tycoons.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Through supermarkets, malls, dairy and beer, Thai tycoons are pursuing deals in Vietnam that could break mergers and acquisitions records in the upwardly mobile market of 21.1 million people, at the expense of their Asian rivals.
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Ukraine's updated list was published online on Thursday, confirming sanctions on Deripaska as well as on other Russian tycoons such as Viktor Vekselberg, owner of Renova holding group, and Alexei Miller, the CEO of Russia's gas exporter Gazprom.
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"At a time when the climate crisis is deepening, both the United States and the world deserve much better than having one of the planet's top fossil fuel tycoons run U.S. foreign policy," Brune said in a statement.
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Bankers have been blamed for steering funds to politically connected business tycoons, such as Vijay Mallya, without due diligence, or after being pressed by government officials to steer funds to sectors it wanted to promote, such as infrastructure.
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A slump in the prices of Russian assets after the United States imposed sanctions on a group of Russian tycoons is partly driven by emotion and there will be a correction, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
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It focused on allegations that members of the Gupta family of business tycoons influenced the appointment of ministers, and called for an investigation into whether Zuma, some of his cabinet members and some state companies had acted improperly.
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With Mr. Putin's Russia, and its interference in Ukraine, becoming a focus of the United States presidential campaign, Mr. Manafort's work in Ukraine has come under scrutiny — along with his business dealings with prominent Ukrainian and Russian tycoons.
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Some of them do business in or with China, but with ordinary people in Hong Kong increasingly feeling the pinch, the tycoons and their political allies may have more reason to protect core local businesses against mainland money.
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Inspired in part by the "Downton Abbey" television drama, the country's once raw and raucous tycoons are aspiring to old-school decorum, fueling demand for the services of homegrown butlers trained in the ways of a British manor.
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Photograph by Grant Cornett for The New Yorker Traditionally, it has been the graying tycoons of technology who funded aging research, hoping to disrupt the three-act structure of the Silicon Valley journey: life hacker, rock climber, cadaver.
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The intense reactions to Mr. Liu's legal troubles reflect the public's fascination with China's self-made tech tycoons, who have become symbols of the country's rise as a global power and its upward social mobility in recent decades.
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Months of demonstrations against mainland China's growing influence have pushed the city's economy into its first recession in a decade, prompted some tycoons to move their wealth offshore, and cancelled events such as industry conferences and music festivals.
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This has led some observers to speculate that the regulator's order might be related to factional struggles, or that it might signal an attempt by China's president, Xi Jinping, to tighten his grip on the economy by toppling tycoons.
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On Tuesday, hours after flames had toppled the cathedral's once towering wood-framed spire and gutted the roof, French tycoons had already pledged hundreds of millions of euros for restoration, as had some of the country's best-known companies.
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His concerns are reasonable: South Africa's anti-corruption ombudsman last year called for a judicial inquiry into allegations that the Gupta brothers, tycoons and close friends of Mr Zuma, had exerted undue influence on cabinet appointments and government contracts.
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But at the same time they are angry at the $1 billion in donations for Notre Dame renovations that poured in from French tycoons while their own economic demands remain largely unmet and they struggle to make ends meet.
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The Deter Act would automatically slap penalties on over 200 senior Russian officials and mega-rich tycoons named on a list compiled by the Treasury Department last year, and hit Russian industries including finance, energy, defense, metals, and mining.
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Senior Russian lawmakers said on Friday that the lower house of parliament would consider draft legislation giving the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports, reacting to new U.S. sanctions on Russian tycoons and officials.
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Some tycoons in the Chinese-ruled financial hub have moved funds or are considering doing so, while the unrest has also encouraged some wealth managers to choose to set up in Singapore instead of Hong Kong, Reuters has reported.
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The lineup included respected technocrats but was headed by Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui, who the opposition said was too close to the ruling elite dominated by business tycoons and veteran fighters of the 1954-62 independence war with France.
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The lineup included respected technocrats but was headed by Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui, who the opposition said was too close to the ruling elite dominated by business tycoons and veteran fighters of the 1954-62 independence war with France.
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Why it matters: Slovakia, a member of the E.U. since 2004, has never managed to rid itself of the corruption that is the inevitable result of close ties between the politicians and tycoons who dominate much of the economy.
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The report, if true, would make him the latest head of a South Korean conglomerate to be grilled by investigators looking into whether President Park Geun-hye put improper pressure on business tycoons to raise funds for two foundations.
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The new round of U.S. sanctions has been a step up in severity, targeting some of Russia's biggest tycoons at key companies such as aluminium giant Rusal and sending the rouble and many stocks exposed to the country tumbling.
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In November, MbS ordered Saudi security forces to round up members of the political and business elite, including princes and tycoons, holding them in Riyadh's opulent Ritz Carlton hotel in what was billed as a war on rampant corruption.
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The approach underlines the political dilemma that labor unrest poses for the Communist Party, which has continued to portray itself as a socialist guardian of worker's rights even as it has embraced capitalism and welcomed tycoons into its ranks.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's ruble suffered its biggest daily fall in over three years on Monday and stocks in major Russian companies also slid, as investors reacted to a new round of U.S. sanctions targeting some of Russia's biggest tycoons.
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We judge business tycoons differently; within the confines of the law, more or less, we expect them to lie and cheat their way to the top, and we assess them solely on how quickly and efficiently they get there.
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The financial records, shared with a number of media outlets, revealed business connections between a Russian oligarch subject to American sanctions and United States Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr., along with ties between Kremlin-favored tycoons and Facebook.
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The Office of Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) found its voice after becoming independent under new laws in 22018 with a mandate to block transactions that would create monopolies, at a time of increased public scrutiny of tycoons' business empires.
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The Office of Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) found its voice after becoming independent under new laws in 24 with a mandate to block transactions that would create monopolies, at a time of increased public scrutiny of tycoons' business empires.
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The Office of Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) found its voice after becoming independent under new laws in 24 with a mandate to block transactions that would create monopolies, at a time of increased public scrutiny of tycoons' business empires.
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That competition, the so-called aluminum wars, was a corpse-filled struggle for control of Siberian smelters and other state-owned Soviet assets that was so violent that even some of Russia's toughest tycoons gave it a wide berth.
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Drawing heavily on donations from oil, chemical and automotive tycoons, Fifield was a founder of a conservative free-market organization, Spiritual Mobilization, that brought together right-wing economists and conservative religious voices — created a template for conservative think tanks.
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Trump was making his case to foreign leaders and business tycoons that his controversial approach to the global economy — trampling long-held norms on trade, tariffs and taxes — had contributed to a "blue-collar boom" in the United States.
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Ellison, the latest in a long line of tycoons to catch America's Cup fever, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars — his own and his team sponsors' — to pursue, secure and now lose the most prestigious prize in yachting.
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Hundreds of Algerians rallied again on Thursday to criticize not just Bouteflika but also the political system, which for decades has been built around veterans of the 1954-1962 war of independence against France, military officers and business tycoons.
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The Office of Trade Competition Commission (OTCC) found its voice after becoming independent under new laws in 73 with a mandate to block transactions that would create monopolies, at a time of increased public scrutiny of tycoons' business empires.
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As 2019 drew to a close, tennis pros, celebrities, and business tycoons across the globe were gearing up for one of the most exclusive events: the Necker Cup, an annual tennis tournament held on Richard Branson&aposs private island.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's personal fortune held steady over the past year, but he vaulted higher on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world as dozens of his fellow tycoons suffered financial setbacks.
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So that they have to pay more so that then that is used to fund FTC, Justice Department, so they can be more on an even playing field, and as sophisticated as the tycoons that are making these deals.
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Along with "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership," by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "Homewreckers" shows what happens when private speculators get buoyed by government largess while non-tycoons are largely left to fend for themselves.
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There were fewer millionaires and billionaires on the Hurun Report's rich list for a second year in a row, but their average wealth increased as China's shift towards the digital economy saw manufacturing and construction tycoons drop off the bottom.
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The United States slapped sanctions on Deripaska and his companies - including En+, Rusal and GAZ - and some other Russian tycoons last month, in response to Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections and what Washington called other "malign activities".
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The riches held by Hong Kong's tycoons have until now made the city the larger private wealth base, with 853 individuals worth more than $100 million — just over double the number in Singapore, according to a 2018 report from Credit Suisse.
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Silicon Valley tycoons like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs, and Jeff Bezos have, over the past few years, bought or invested in major national publications like Time magazine, The Atlantic and The Washington Post, respectively.
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Tycoons from Azerbaijan, Russia, Malaysia and the UAE have bought up property and developed luxury seaside resorts; but many folk feel that, as they struggle on low salaries and poor public services, a tiny group around Mr Djukanovic has got rich.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - One of Dubai's leading real estate tycoons will take charge of Dubai Holding, the investment vehicle of the emirate's ruler which has a $35 billion portfolio of assets in over 20 countries, the Dubai government said on Sunday.
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"Tycoons will move against him if the ringgit keeps going down, but more importantly, SMEs and traders will go to the wall as prices will go up 20 percent across the board," he said, referring to small- and medium-sized enterprises.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament is to consider draft legislation that would give the Kremlin powers to ban or restrict a list of U.S. imports, reacting to new U.S. sanctions on a group of Russian tycoons and officials.
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These days one in five of Aksu's 50,000 residents works at the factory and it is a model for the country's state-sponsored capitalism under which tycoons are responsible for the welfare of "mono towns" that depend on their business.
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Some demonstrators have rejected Algeria's tradition of military intervention in civilian matters and want to dismantle the entire power elite, known locally as "le pouvoir", which includes army officers, the long-ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party and business tycoons.
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Some demonstrators have rejected Algeria's tradition of military intervention in civilian matters and want to dismantle the entire power elite, known locally as "le pouvoir," which includes army officers, the long-ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party and business tycoons.
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This offence had occurred at the twilight of Tsang's career, just before retiring in 2012, when reports began surfacing of Tsang's lavish spending on overseas duty visits, along with allegations of trips with tycoons by private jet and luxury yacht.
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At his height, Dankner symbolised a class of businessmen in Israel known as "tycoons", who control large chunks of the economy and have been blamed by the public for stifling competition, and raising the cost of living as a result.
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NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's personal fortune held steady over the past year, but he vaulted higher on the Forbes list of the richest people in the world as dozens of his fellow tycoons suffered financial setbacks.
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That may be good news for an aged and thinning party elite from the Front de Liberation National (FLN), allied business tycoons and generals - collectively known as "Le Pouvoir" or "The Powers That Be" - that has long managed Algeria's politics.
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For future business tycoons, Buffett says a higher education is beneficial, according to a 2001 article in Nebraska Business magazine, a publication of the University of Nebraska, from which he got a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1950.
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French retail group Casino's sale of its Thai and Vietnam units has drawn the eye of Singapore's Dairy Farm International Holdings and South Korea's Lotte Shopping but they'll need punchy bids to go up against deep-pocketed Thai tycoons, bankers said.
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Mr. Xu made many friends in Hong Kong, including democrats and tycoons, said Kam Kin-yat, whose father, Kam Yiu-yu, was the editor of the pro-Beijing Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po and an old friend of Mr. Xu's.
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Many tycoons, including Lee's father, were convicted of crimes in the past, ranging from bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion, only to get presidential pardons, as both the government and the public feared going too hard on them would hurt the economy.
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There have always been rank-and-file Republicans who favor higher taxes on the rich, and though Trump's official tax plan cuts them drastically, he has shrewdly made populist noises about forcing Wall Street tycoons to pay their fair share.
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Eldorado is among the flagship assets J&F put up for sale after the two meatpacking tycoons agreed to pay a record-setting 10.3 billion-real fine for their role in corruption scandals that have hurt President Michel Temer's administration.
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Perhaps only in North Dakota, where oil tycoons wine and dine elected officials, and where the governor, Jack Dalrymple, serves as an adviser to the Trump campaign, would state and county governments act as the armed enforcement for corporate interests.
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The riches held by Hong Kong's tycoons have until now made the city the larger private wealth base, with 853 individuals worth more than $100 million - just over double the number in Singapore, according to a 2018 report from Credit Suisse.
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It's not only the smallest city in the league but the only professional sports team not owned by one or two rich tycoons with the power to fling their franchises to new cities in the search for profit and glory.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Wiser Educação SA, a chain of Brazilian language schools owned by two local tycoons, aims to double in size over the next three years by buying cash-strapped rivals across Latin America's largest country, the company's founder said.
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A report published by a special committee that was set up in 2017 to examine granting of credit to a number of Israeli tycoons who were highly leveraged called into question enforcement of the Bank of Israel's Supervisor of Banks.
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The legal battle began in 2015 when Tsang was charged with misconduct in public office in a trial that centered around allegations of lavish spending on overseas duty visits and taking trips with tycoons by private jet and luxury yacht.
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Well-briefed Hong Kong tycoons have hinted at a deadline for displays of defiance by the territory to end: October 1st, when the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China will be marked in Beijing with a grand parade.
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Asked about the unrest in Hong Kong, the Huawei boss voices aloud a criticism that other members of the mainland elite normally voice in private: that the tycoons who dominate the former British colony have been too greedy over the years.
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Wilderness lodges in Aroostook and Washington Counties helped create the concept of domestic travel in America in the late 1800s, when wealthy tycoons of the Gilded Age rode the trains they built to Augusta and Bangor to hunt and fish.
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"Every day that we get to put out a newspaper is a good day for us," said Jodie DeJonge, the editor in chief of The Cambodia Daily, which has clashed for decades with government officials and tycoons over its investigative pieces.
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It provides a rare ground-level view of a particularly murky aspect of Russia's influence strategy: freelance activists who promote its agenda abroad, but get their backing from Russian tycoons and others close to the Kremlin, not the Russian state itself.
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One part of the CAATSA — section 241 — specifically asked the department to compile a list of senior Russian government officials at the Kremlin and elsewhere throughout the government, in addition to leaders of state-owned companies and private business tycoons.
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Although not initially part of Mr. Putin's closest circle of advisers, he remained minister during Mr. Putin's first term as president and was instrumental in his efforts to wrest control over national television networks from the tycoons who ran them.
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The South Korean government and the judiciary have been similarly lenient toward other business tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes, deepening public mistrust of the justice system and raising doubts among foreign investors who want tighter corporate governance in South Korea.
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About 40 percent of them are C.C.P. members; the rest are people of renown from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau carefully selected for their wealth, popularity and political pliability — like movie stars, religious leaders, business tycoons and university presidents.
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Seizing on this cue, Chinese tycoons raced to invest an estimated $2.5 billion in nearly two dozen European soccer clubs, ranging from giants like Manchester City and AC Milan to smaller clubs like SK Slavia Prague and FC Sochaux in France.
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He is suspected of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons and of dispensing favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by Israel's biggest selling newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and the Walla website.
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Heavily backed by loyal news outlets and powerful tycoons like Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, known as "Putin's cook," Mr. Beglov is still expected to win the St. Petersburg poll, part of a nationwide series of municipal and regional votes on Sunday.
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Intermittent fasting has become trendy among Silicon Valley tycoons like Twitter's Jack Dorsey and celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, but Gronkowski says he was turned on to the idea by a couple of friends and one of his brothers who tried it.
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Like Sanders, Omar points to difficult aspects of the Obama legacy -- such as the significant increase in deportations and the failure to prosecute Wall Street tycoons for the crash of 2008 -- that don't sit well with much of the party's base.
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The government has also sought to reassure the global lender that there would be no rollback of an IMF-backed decision in 2016 to nationalise PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which was owned by one of the country's most powerful tycoons.
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Netanyahu is suspected of wrongfully accepting $264,000 worth of gifts, which prosecutors said included cigars and champagne, from tycoons and of dispensing favours in alleged bids for improved coverage by Israel's biggest selling newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and the Walla website.
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The government has also sought to reassure the global lender that there would be no rollback of an IMF-backed decision in 2016 to nationalize PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which was owned by one of the country's most powerful tycoons.
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The government has also sought to reassure the global lender that there would be no rollback of an IMF-backed decision in 2016 to nationalize PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which was owned by one of the country's most powerful tycoons.
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Editorial To understand the cynicism and mendacity underlying the Republican tax bill, look no further than a provision that would benefit President Trump and other property tycoons that is in the final legislation Congress is expected to vote on this week.
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We proudly positioned the blurb announcing his lecture at the front of the newsprint catalog on its own two-page spread, rather than tucked away amid the litany of courses taught by shamans, sexperts, and self-professed real estate tycoons.
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Since it started as a web-series in 2012—moving to BBC Three in 2014—it's become one of the best-loved comedies on British television, with its deluded pirate radio "tycoons," their money-making schemes and a UK garage soundtrack.
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Next week, the market will continue digesting the fallout from the U.S. sanctions which, according to Reuters calculations, could have caused a combined $7.5 billion damage to three Russian tycoons on the list in a matter of few days after their announcement.
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Mostly he hammered at his main themes: Islamic State (IS), which he mentioned repeatedly, and his supposed plans to close tax loopholes exploited by tycoons such as him, while "bigly" using his beautiful knowledge of the tax code to help the middle class.
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The film of the first book, which came out last year, is an even more caricatured depiction of social advancement, full of jealous spouses, mean girls, manipulative mothers-in-law, cigar-chomping tycoons, Chuppies (Chinese yuppies) and Henwees (high-net-worth individuals).
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The riches held by Hong Kong's tycoons have until now made the city the larger base for private wealth, boasting 853 individuals worth more than $100 million - just over double the number in Singapore - according to a 2018 report from Credit Suisse.
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The riches held by Hong Kong's tycoons have until now made the city the larger base for private wealth, boasting 853 individuals worth more than $100 million - just over double the number in Singapore - according to a 2018 report from Credit Suisse.
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In fact, one man not only sold more than all the other debutants—becoming the year's only gold certification (which requires 100,000 sales) for a debut—he even sold more than wet rock tycoons Biffy Clyro and floppy piano man Tom Odell.
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LONDON — The United States on Tuesday ratcheted up its efforts to block Kremlin-linked industrialists from doing business in the West, warning that British banks will have to sever their relationships with the tycoons if they want continued access to American financial institutions.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Monday shrugged off reported restrictions on Russian business leaders who take part in the Davos world economic forum in January and said it welcomed a move by the organizers to lift a ban on several Russian tycoons.
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Two major stocks linked to tycoons detained in the anti-graft crackdown - Kingdom Holding and Al Tayyar Travel - barely moved as trading volumes in them shrank, which suggested investors were no longer dumping the stocks out of concern over the companies' viability.
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MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Three Russian tycoons targeted by a new list of U.S. sanctions may have lost a combined $27.5 billion since the list was announced, according to Reuters calculations based on price moves in the listed companies the three co-own.
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Today, the economic troubles that Mr. Putin came here to make a big show of solving are back, only worse and involving far more intractable problems than just the "trivial greed" of tycoons that Mr. Putin blamed for Pikalevo's tumult in 2009.
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Some demonstrators have rejected Algeria's tradition of military intervention in civilian matters and want to dismantle the entire power elite, known locally as "le pouvoir", which includes army officers, the long-ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party, business tycoons and union leaders.
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Mr. Xu told the Hong Kong television journalist Ida Chan that in Hong Kong, he dined regularly with people of all backgrounds, including anti-Communists and tycoons, and grew to realize the depth of fears over the territory's return to China in 1997.
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It makes it very attractive for the operator, with just 5 percent gaming tax compared with Macau's 39 percent, said Mark Brown, Imperial's chief executive, who formerly worked for U.S. casino tycoons including president-elect Donald Trump, Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.
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While the condo owners may be unlikely to mingle with the masses downstairs over burgers, 'nduja, and devilled eggs, perhaps—if, say, they're Russian oil tycoons keen to take secret meetings with American kleptocrats—they'll appreciate the establishment's shadowy corners and deafening acoustics.
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Beyond the evidence of direct links between Mr. Kaspersky and the Russian government, we cannot ignore the indirect links inherent in doing business in the Russia of President Vladimir Putin, where oligarchs and tycoons have no choice but to cooperate with the Kremlin.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Forbes magazine said on Thursday it was excluding all Saudi Arabian tycoons from its annual list of the world's richest people after dozens of top businessmen from the oil-rich kingdom were detained in a crackdown on corruption last year.
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The panel on Tuesday seemed like an opportunity to recast the initiative's image to a crowd stacked with government leaders and tycoons from developing countries, many of which have borrowed heavily from Chinese financial institutions to build infrastructure as part of the program.
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Labor and other progressive activists called for Mr. Yang's arrest, claiming that reform is long overdue in the country's deeply cloistered judiciary, which has long been accused of being too lenient on business tycoons convicted of bribery and other white-collar crimes.
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He has never seemed to be enthralled with the filmmaking process — he leaves day-to-day management to the Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke — but like Howard Hughes and other outsider tycoons before him, Mr. Bezos has unmistakably embraced the industry's trappings.
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While over 150 million American households will get small-ish checks, the 880-page legislation also provides $500 billion to corporations, a potential huge tax break for real estate tycoons, and even some fine print that could help the Trump family hotels.
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With a flurry of arrests of princes and business tycoons over the weekend, the crown prince jettisoned the longstanding practice among Saudi rulers of seeking consensus, or at least acquiescence, from all branches of the family and from the country's business elite.
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But he and other tycoons freed from a luxury hotel in the Saudi capital face a challenge to get back into the swing of running their financial empires in the uncertainty hanging over the business community since their detention in early November.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads They sounded like an odd pairing when the announcement arrived: Eva Hesse and John Chamberlain, featured in the exhibitions, Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS and John Chamberlain Baby Tycoons, at Hauser & Wirth's uptown townhouse.
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His latest confrontation with the Kremlin began on March 2, when the charismatic, 41-year-old opposition leader released the slick video shot by drones depicting the prime minister's vast, luxury real estate holdings, paid for by some of Russia's richest tycoons.
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After the move, his incredible net worth of over $13 billion helped him steal the top spot on Forbes' list from property tycoons Robert and Phillip Ng, who had dominated it for the past decade with a combined net worth of $12 billion.
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The case against Mr. Netanyahu is centered on charges that he traded or offered to take official action benefiting wealthy media tycoons in exchange for gifts and fawning, lopsided news coverage of himself and his family and rough treatment of his adversaries.
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The cup, long a magnet for tycoons like Ellison, is a playground for the elite, but the success of Bermuda's ethnically diverse Red Bull Youth America's Cup team, which unexpectedly reached the finals here, has generated enthusiasm across the divide in Bermuda.
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These people sound like a private club of uneducated, inexperienced tycoons who will drink their whiskey, smoke their cigars, pat one another on the back for being important and try to enact bad laws that will harm tens of millions of citizens.
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But Trump and his allies would rather use that money (roughly $597 billion worth) to reward real estate tycoons like President Trump and other wealthy business owners with a cut in the top tax rate paid by so-called "pass-through" entities.
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That year the bigger faction, which included many of Hong Kong's top tycoons, saw its candidate, Henry Tang Ying-yen, lose out to Mr. Leung — over a real estate scandal that turned out to be no worse than another one involving Mr. Leung.
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Local tycoons were spooked by rising threats by lawmakers in the United States to reconsider an American policy granting special trade status to Hong Kong, raising the prospect that the city could become another front in President Trump's trade war with China.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Swiss franc, long a place to park cash during times of stress - and away from the taxman's eyes - may be losing its cachet, not least for Russian tycoons who face growing crackdown risks, from local regulations as well as at home.
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MOSCOW — The Trump administration on Friday announced new sanctions against a list of Russian business tycoons, government officials and corporations, part of the continuing political and economic fallout from the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England last month.
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Saudi security forces have rounded up members of the political and business elite, including princes and tycoons, holding them in Riyadh's opulent Ritz Carlton hotel on the orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in what was billed as a war on rampant corruption.
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The warning from Yang Xiaodu, the minister of supervision and a right-hand man of top graft-buster Wang Qishan, comes as observers are watching closely to see if more tycoons will be targeted ahead of a reshuffle of the top ranks later this year.
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In 2009 two former collegiate wrestlers-turned-Wall Street tycoons rebooted an already existing fund, calling it the Living the Dream Medal Fund, "for the purpose of allowing the entire wrestling community to participate in celebrating and honoring the hard work" of American wrestling champions.
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JERUSALEM, July 4 (Reuters) - Nochi Dankner, once one of Israel's most powerful tycoons who lost his business empire in the global economic downturn, faces up to five years in jail after a Tel Aviv court found him guilty on Monday of manipulating share prices.
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Since Mr. Sisi took power in 2013, the government and courts have shown great leniency toward the powerful figures of Mr. Mubarak's era — business tycoons, ministers and cronies, now exonerated or released from jail — underscoring the sharp limits of change in Egypt since 2011.
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On Friday, China's top securities regulator vowed to apprehend law-breaking financial tycoons he called "giant crocodiles", which came after Chinese-born billionaire Xiao Jianhua disappeared in Hong Kong and a Chinese hedge fund manager Xu Xiang was sentenced to jail for market manipulation.
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Many entrepreneurs told me that they respected Ren Zhengfei, Huawei's founder and Ms. Meng's father, more than high-profile Chinese internet tycoons like Jack Ma of Alibaba and Pony Ma of Tencent because Huawei is the only Chinese corporation with a truly global footprint.
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Sports in general, but especially soccer — given its global appeal — are an ideal way for tycoons to purchase prestige and for countries to burnish their reputations, particularly when governments have unsavory associations with issues such as human rights abuse, gender inequality or antidemocratic politics.
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Mr. Lee's release reaffirmed a pattern of relative impunity for the country's tycoons, and, as our correspondent writes, it certainly won't help the Samsung empire's reputation for having "unbridled power" — or increase its ability to deal with its biggest threat: emerging competition from China.
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While all of the other prominent tycoons in Hong Kong have stayed silent about the protests or issued statements filled with Communist-style jargon about the need to "resolutely stop the turmoil," Mr. Lai has not only supported the protesters but has also joined them.
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A former Mexico City mayor, Lopez Obrador has accused Larrea and Bailleres - who were the second and third richest men in Mexico on the 2018 Forbes rich list - of belonging to a group of tycoons seeking to thwart democracy and keep him from power.
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One person familiar with the Southeast Asian deal said McDonald's was keen to tie up with regional family-owned groups and local tycoons as it sought out long-term partners rather than buyout firms, which usually cash out of a business after a few years.
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Speaking to supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, early Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump outlined a truly wild conspiracy theory in which a shadowy international cabal of bankers and media tycoons, working in cahoots with the FBI, is working to deliver the election to Hillary Clinton.
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While most of the media followed Apple CEO Tim Cook's every move as he met India's business tycoons, political leaders and Bollywood superstars in Mumbai, Lisa Jackson, former EPA chief and now Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, quietly sneaked off to Rajasthan.
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Image: AP Photo/Rogelio V. SolisWith the executive branch about to be handed off to climate deniers and oil tycoons, the outgoing administration is urging scientists to explore any and all options for combating the threat of climate change—including engineering the atmosphere to stop it.
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Duterte, who was swept to office in May by a huge margin on a platform tilted towards the poor, said he had consciously shut powerful tycoons out of his election campaign and where his reform plan was concerned, they would have to like it or lump it.
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The AK's mayoral candidate, Binali Yildirim, a former prime minister and parliamentary speaker, had the support of media run by pro-government tycoons, his party's seemingly unstoppable electoral machine and the president, who stumped for his candidates as if his own political future were on the line.
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With the arrests of eleven princes and some 200 tycoons in Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made clear that he will resort to any means necessary to solidify his ascent to power upon the death or abdication of his 81-year-old father, King Salman.
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Chinese tycoons such as Jack Ma of Alibaba and Robin Li of Baidu, two internet giants, are becoming fabulously wealthy by learning how to serve a huge new market in much the same way that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller did with steel and oil.
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Billionaire Li Ka-shing, for decades one of the world's wealthiest tycoons, has named his elder son, Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, as his successor in principle, a day after the Cheung Kong group clarified that he had "no concrete timetable" to retire from the global conglomerate.
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Bhattacharya, who is due to step down this week, earned respect by warning that the days of tycoons gaming the banking system were over – and encouraging New Delhi to pursue liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who was re-arrested in London on Tuesday on new money-laundering charges.
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Mr. Lesin became the minister of the press in 1999, in the twilight of Boris N. Yeltsin's presidency, and became an instrumental player in Mr. Putin's efforts during his first term as president to wrest control of national television networks from the tycoons who ran them.
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HONG KONG — A top editor at one of Hong Kong's most prestigious newspapers was fired on Wednesday after the publication of a front page devoted to a single story: the offshore holdings uncovered by the Panama Papers of some of the city's tycoons, celebrities and politicians.
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Duterte, who was swept to office in May by a huge margin on a platform tilted toward the poor, said he had consciously shut powerful tycoons out of his election campaign and where his reform plan was concerned they would have to like it or lump it.
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While these tycoons still control large swathes of Hong Kong, namely its core property sector, Chinese capital and businesses have become more intertwined with the city's economic fabric, challenging their dominance as the streets are increasingly lined with mainland-backed banks, petrol stations, shops and supermarkets.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Trump took his campaign for tax cuts to another key battleground state on Wednesday in search of elusive Democratic votes as he argued that his plan would benefit middle-class Americans, like truck drivers, more than it would help his fellow business tycoons.
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They follow sanctions that the United States imposed in April on a roster of Russian business tycoons, government officials and corporations, and are the latest example of the hot and cold approach that the Trump administration has taken in handling one of America's most prominent adversaries.
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HONG KONG — A former leader of Hong Kong was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Wednesday for misconduct in public office, a development in a high-profile trial that has again brought attention to the cozy ties between the city's political elites and business tycoons.
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For seven minutes on live television — enormously valuable exposure with elections only three months away — Mr. Netanyahu railed against a corruption investigation into his dealings with several Israeli media tycoons that is widely expected to culminate soon in an indictment on bribery and other criminal charges.
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"At a time when the climate crisis is deepening, both the United States and the world deserve much better than having one of the planet's top fossil fuel tycoons run U.S. foreign policy," Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement published on Saturday.
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The AK's mayoral candidate, a former prime minister and parliamentary speaker, Binali Yildirim, had the support of a media controlled by pro-government tycoons, his party's seemingly unstoppable electoral machine and the president, who stumped for his candidates as if his own political future were on the line.
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Saudi security forces rounded up hundreds of members of the political and business elite, including princes and tycoons, in early November: Riyadh said it was a crackdown on corruption but the move was also widely seen as helping Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tighten his grip on power.
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The cold truth is that the entire Hong Kong business community is waiting for what the biggest tycoons like Victor Fung of Li & Fung are going to do about the initiative – exactly how much of their own money are they going to invest in this grand logistics project.
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The landmark trial tarnished Hong Kong's reputation for clean and efficient governance — exposing the cozy relationship between powerful tycoons and officials in the former British colony, with Sun Hung Kai paying Hui millions of Hong Kong dollars in bribes, indirectly through Chan and Kwan, to gain government favor.
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Two hundred New York City firefighters responded on Wednesday to a fire at 740 Park Avenue, an Art Deco apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that has historically been home to some of the city's wealthiest residents — tycoons, Wall Street executives and heirs among them.
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The dolls and dandies attending the Jazz Age Lawn Party simultaneously express a passion for arcana and a thirst for making the scene as they lunch on the lawn (plucking grapes, scooping quinoa, picking at Caligulan spreads of Carr's crackers) or else cocktail like tycoons in $5,000 V.I.P. tents.
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SEOUL, South Korea — When Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of Samsung, walked free on Monday after spending barely a year in jail, it reaffirmed a pattern South Koreans have fought for decades to break: Business tycoons convicted of corruption here hardly spend any time behind bars.
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Movie and television stars, business tycoons and politicians have all expressed concern over President Trump's controversial policies but members of the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons, who will clash in the National Football League's championship game on Sunday, dodged questions with the same skill they slip tackles.
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The potential new charges against Netanyahu come after years of controversy over his and his wife's lavish spending (including shelling out $20093,700 a year for gourmet ice cream), close relationships with Israeli and foreign business tycoons, and efforts to muzzle Israel's left-leaning press to ensure warmer media coverage.
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Since the handover the tycoons have come to dominate not just the economy but also government, opposing calls for more democratic representation, a more generous welfare state and, of course, a programme to build mass, cheap housing of the kind that Singapore has long promoted (and used to keep voters quiescent).
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Mrs Lam, who was hand-picked by a panel dominated by politicians and tycoons loyal to Communist rulers in Beijing, says the new bill will plug a "loophole"—as if previous leaders somehow forgot to draft rules for sending suspects to China's courts, which take orders from the Communist Party.
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While other Chinese EV start-ups including LeSee, NextEV, Future Mobility and Qiantu Motor are mostly backed by big internet groups such as Alibaba and Tencent, Shanghai-based WM Motor's funding, in the "billions of yuan", is from Chinese investors, but not technology tycoons or venture capital funds, says Shen.
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While another term for Bouteflika would give a ruling caste of FLN officials, generals and business tycoons time to organize a smooth succession, it is likely to be a source of frustration for young Algerians worried about unemployment and austerity in a state-controlled economy suffering from low oil prices.
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When the scheduled conversation by the tycoons was first announced, speculation was rife that they could use the podium to talk about issues such as the U.S.-China trade frictions, which both had previously publicly commented on, a factory Tesla is building in Shanghai, or Ma's impending retirement from Alibaba.
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When the scheduled conversation by the tycoons was first announced, speculation was rife that they could use the podium to talk about issues such as the U.S.-China trade frictions, which both had previously publicly commented on, a factory Tesla is building in Shanghai, or Ma's impending retirement from Alibaba.
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Frankly, it's a disgrace that Trump administration officials and American business tycoons enabled and applauded M.B.S. as he imprisoned business executives, kidnapped Lebanon's prime minister, rashly created a crisis with Qatar, and went to war in Yemen to create what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis there.
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The power of the one-percenters may help explain why President Trump, who ran as a populist, has not only abandoned any pretense of fighting for the working class but also joined Republicans in Congress in ripping up regulations that protect families and the environment — in order to help business tycoons.
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As for Asia, "because China is not remotely interested in the democratic health of the United States", its leaders and tycoons are happy to flatter Mr Trump or do business deals with his family, giving China an advantage over more squeamish Western powers, sighs a diplomat who sees this process up close.
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The chairman of Gunnlaugsson's Progressive Party, at least one senior government adviser, prominent former bankers and handful of tycoons from Iceland were also implicated in the documents, which were sent to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by an anonymous source over a year ago and a first batch of which was released on Sunday.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Chinese hackers were possibly behind one of the world's biggest cyber heists, the theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, a senator in the Philippines said on Tuesday, while a Manila bank manager involved in the case said she was a pawn of senior bankers and unnamed tycoons.
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A blast at tycoons who "corner the money of the world", Bryan's address ended with a call to issue dollars unbacked by gold—understood by his audience as a cry to let the dollar depreciate, slashing the real value of debts that, in his words, pressed a "crown of thorns" on workers' brows.
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PIKALEVO, Russia — The factory meeting room where the Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin browbeat one of Russia's richest tycoons in front of cameras from state television has become a shrine, hallowed ground where Mr. Putin showed a path out of economic pain for ordinary people and calmed a spasm of worker unrest.
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Through a career spanning the 78 years since his family fled war-torn China for Hong Kong, Li built fortunes first in plastics and property before joining the first wave of top-tier Chinese tycoons in the city with the 0003 purchase of Hutchison Whampoa, a venerable British "hong" or trading house.
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What if it approached the decision as an opportunity to push back against trends driving populist suspicion of big business — educational and geographic polarization, coastal growth and heartland decay, the sense that the New Economy creates wealth but not jobs and that its tycoons are loyal to globalization rather than their country?
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Editorial This is how Senate Republicans compromise these days: They could make their enormously unpopular tax bill, which lavishes benefits on corporations and wealthy families, more generous to real estate tycoons and hedge fund billionaires to win over a couple of lawmakers who say the legislation doesn't do enough for small businesses.
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Shares indicated 2.1 percent higher U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates prescribing information for Keytruda (pembrolizumab) & Roche's Tecentriq (atezolizumab) to require use of FDA-approved companion diagnostic test Asian tycoons weigh bids for LafargeHolcim arm valued up to $2 billion - Bloomberg Voters seem ready to approve three issues being put to binding referenda on Sept.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's transition team is dominated by oil tycoons and climate change deniers.
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"Rather than follow through on an earlier Congressional commitment to reimburse states for the costs of issuing Build America Bonds, which were used to jumpstart our Great-Recession-decimated economy, Congress instead wants to allow our nation's wealthiest tycoons to feed deeper at the public trough," California Treasurer John Chiang said in a statement.
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"Beyond the evidence of direct links between Mr. Kaspersky and the Russian government, we cannot ignore the indirect links inherent in doing business in the Russia of President Vladimir Putin, where oligarchs and tycoons have no choice but to cooperate with the Kremlin," Shaheen wrote in a New York Times op-ed in September.
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But the double exhibition of Eva Hesse and John Chamberlain (Forms Larger and Bolder: EVA HESSE DRAWINGS and John Chamberlain Baby Tycoons) currently at Hauser & Wirth's East 221th Street outpost brings up an interesting question: what would be the effect if Hesse had been paired not with Chamberlain, but with her one-time husband, Tom Doyle?
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He will have no credibility if he takes an aggressive stand against AT&T-Time Warner but then goes easy on deals involving companies owned or controlled by conservative tycoons, like the pending Sinclair Broadcast Group acquisition of Tribune Media and any deals made by 21st Century Fox, which has reportedly had talks to sell assets to Disney.
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That's because this elegant institution, founded by the French-émigré oil tycoons John and Dominique de Menil and housed in a simple Renzo Piano building plunked down in a quiet neighborhood of cozy bungalows, is now presenting As Essential as Dreams: Self-taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither (on view through October 16).
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At first, when Primorsky's residents heard that a local logistics tycoon, Yury Konoplev, had bought a large plot of land, they assumed he was doing what tycoons normally do: building a lavish dacha for his family in one of the city's more upscale neighborhoods, overlooking the Zhiguli Sea, one of the widest parts of the Volga River.
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That China has put so much energy into demonizing Jimmy Lai, 71, is a measure of his singular status as the one prominent businessman in Hong Kong who openly supports antigovernment protests, routinely denounces the Communist Party leader Xi Jinping as a "dictator" and refuses to follow fellow tycoons in paying at least token obeisance to Beijing.
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In this extraordinary—and extraordinarily disturbing—work of nonfiction, Mayer, a veteran investigative journalist, laid bare the tremendous political influence of a handful of far-right billionaires: banking and oil heir Richard Mellon Scaife, chemical industry magnate John M. Olin, electronics barons Harry and Lynde Bradley, and, above all, fossil fuel tycoons Charles and David Koch.
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Among that group of 209 entrepreneurs and business tycoons, the 100 richest saw their net worth rise 64 percent in the four years since Mr. Xi took power, according to the Hurun Report, an organization based in Shanghai that tracked the wealth of the delegates, ahead of their annual joint sessions that start on Friday in Beijing.
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"Li Ka-shing is remarkable - he's a role model and I regard him as such," said Stuart Gulliver, former CEO of HSBC who in a 38-year career with the bank worked closely with Li. It was HSBC's 1979 sale to Li of a stake in Hutchison Whampoa, a colonial-era trading house, that vaulted him into the first rank of Chinese tycoons.
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Nobody would call Vince Gilligan's drama a subtle show —" this is a series in which a man's severed head once walked in on the back of a turtle and then exploded —" but its villains were always given enough context to at least help us understand what led them to be the ruthless cartel leaders or chicken tycoons we meet on the show.
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No reality television star has run for president before, but Mr. Trump, with his grasp of the art of notoriety, has forebears of a kind in General MacArthur and Charles A. Lindbergh, the celebrity aviator whose "America First" slogan Mr. Trump has appropriated, and in Hearst and Henry Ford, a pair of renowned and eccentric tycoons who eyed the presidency.
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He is part of an expanding coterie of American tycoons who are forking over big philanthropic dollars for high profile civic spaces by star designers — among them "Diller Island," an off-and-now-on-again performing arts center on a Hudson River pier in New York underwritten by the billionaire Barry Diller and his fashion designer wife Diane von Furstenberg.
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Interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the practice — including prominent tycoons, wealth managers, lawyers and current and former officials — suggest a swathe of Russia's national wealth is now in the hands of a new class of semi-exiled oligarchs, who keep bases in their homeland but escape its tax net by spending fewer than 43 days a year there.
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It has been a decade in which soccer teams, and soccer tournaments, were squabbled over and bought up not only by plutocrats and tycoons and magnates but also by nation states, when Manchester City and Paris St.-Germain became an arm of foreign policy, when clubs and players suddenly had to worry that they might incur the wrath of the Chinese government.
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Drawn to the romance of treks to kill lions, elephants and rhinos and to photograph native tribes and storybook landscapes, clients flocked from around the world to Selby safaris, which were booked for years with clients like Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Maharajah of Jaipur, Prince Stanislas Radziwill of Poland and Western tycoons, industrialists and chief executives seeking thrills and self-fulfillment.
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Conservatives have long stoked fear of socialism to drive moderates from the Democratic Party—in the 1930s, Herbert Hoover helped California business tycoons paint agrarian labor activism as "creeping socialism"; Nixon won his first Senate race by sliming his opponent as a "Pink Lady"; and Republicans have found Marx's fingerprints on every liberal policy of the last half-century—all with help from the media.
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"The judges chose today to protect the separation of powers and the rule of law in Israel, to halt the limitless recklessness for the benefit of the gas tycoons, and to put up a glowing stop sign in order to defend the public and Israeli democracy," Shelly Yachimovich, a lawmaker from the center-left Zionist Union group, wrote on her Facebook page on Sunday.
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Unlike most of the famous luxurious rehabs, where patients are humbled by making their own bed or pulling up weeds in a communal garden, the tycoons, princesses, and film stars who come here —a third of clients are from the Middle East, a third from the U.S. and the rest from Europe, Russia, and Asia—are free to carry on living a very comfortable lifestyle.
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Editorial The big news in the art world the other day — and it was big — was the disclosure that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the young Saudi heir who's detained dozens of cousins and tycoons in an anti-corruption drive, was the mysterious buyer who paid a fortune for a distinctly non-Islamic Leonardo at an auction at Christie's in New York City last month.
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