Debts of ritzy Mont. club's owner exceed $150M

Court filings show that the owner of a financially struggling Montana haven for the rich is herself more than $150 million in debt, with most of her many houses, cars and other belongings put up as collateral on overdue loans.

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Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

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Pro-Lifers Against Buffett-Gates Alliance

Warren Buffett's new philanthropic alliance with fellow billionaire Bill Gates won widespread praise this week, but anti-abortion activists did not join in, instead assailing the two donors for their longtime support of Planned Parenthood and international birth-control programs.

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Forbes U.S. Billionaires, Listed by State

The ranking of American billionaires as estimated by Forbes magazine, listed by state. Listings include rank, name, age where known, wealth in billions of dollars and source of the money.

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How about the Billionaire Bailout Society? Here are its salient features: 1.We promote accumulation of vast fortunes without limits. 2.We shun progressive income taxes that could narrow the gap.

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Even though the facts prove the opposite.

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Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made?

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It was a lovely day in DC as the Billionaires for Wealthcare gathered to survey our investments.

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"There your heart will be also."

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The richest people in the world have gotten poorer, just like the rest of us. This year the world's billionaires have an average net worth of $3 billion, down 23% in 12 months. The world now has 793 billionaires, down from 1,125 a year ag

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HOUSTON— Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has filed a motion to move to a different jail, citing "oppressive" conditions at the Joe Corley Detention Facility. AP R. Allen Stanford The motion was prepared on Sunday by Stanford's attorney, Dick DeGuerin.

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You want to know who the top percentile of the world's wealthiest are? Here's the list.

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The top 400 billionaires are sitting on a huge pile of money, while our country is going deeply into debt to fix a financial system that has contributed mightily to their enrichment.

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Losing $1.53B is most likely tied to quantum physics or Kevin Bacon's Six Degrees of Separation. How you lose that much money? By letting other people with no scruples manage it. I had a newspaper route as a kid, too. The difference is that I both managed AND collected.

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Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made?

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The worldwide Billionaire Club became even more exclusive this year after the global financial crises wiped out $1.4 trillion of billionaires' collective wealth in 2008.

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Forbes has included a Mexican cartel leader as a billionaire in their publication right along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Joaquin Guzman Loera, escaped prison in 2001 and has built up of the top 2 drug cartels in Mexico. Surely Gates & Buffet are thrilled with the company.

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Forbes, the magazine that tracks the world's rich like a naturalist charting wildebeest, published its list of billionaires yesterday. It has shrunk from a crowd of 1,125 to a mob of 793, the first time that billionaires have become rarer as a species since 2003.

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Billionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers. And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he's also about to be as much as a billion dollars richer.

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The World's Most Powerful Billionaires

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Spiegel does the best interviews and presents them without spin.

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November 28, 2008 -- Sisters and brothers, today our Mother Earth is ill... One of the most tragic consequences of the climate change is that some nations and territories are the condemned to disappear by the increase of the sea level.

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A funny thing has happened on the way to the forum. As the institutions of super-capitalism continue to implode, a number of conservative commentators have started to lay blame for the mess on poor people.

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Leave it to Warren Buffett. With Berkshire Hathaway's huge satchel of cash he is negotiating sweetheart deals from Industry blue chips such as Goldman Sachs and General Electric.

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Americans, as unfolding economic events remind us, are of two minds about other people's piles of money. We can resent the enormous riches generated on Wall Street. At the same time, we can venerate other kinds of wealth — Silicon Valley's, for example.

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McCain/Palin makes total sense . . .

I think if you're a billionaire, you should probably worry about Obama/Biden. They don't understand the problems billionaires face. At least they're smart enough to listen, but I just don't think they get it.

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Sebastián Piñera, one of the richest men in Chile, has a CV that includes introducing credit cards to his country and many large-scale property developments. Now he has added what every chic millionaire needs - his own private ecosystem.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates pledged an additional $375 million on Wednesday to fight what they called a global tobacco epidemic.

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In an era where we outspend the entire world combined on "defense" and billions of dollars go missing or are spectacularly misspent, there are many who profit.

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