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Jeff Bezos is close to losing the title of richest person in the world to Bill Gates as Amazon shares continue to fall Friday after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results this week.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday claimed that she does not have a “beef” with billionaires, despite repeatedly targeting the wealthy over the course of her political campaign.

During the CNN-New York Times’ Democrat debate on Tuesday night, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) falsely claimed that no Democrat running for president on the stage wanted to “protect billionaires.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has decried the ultra-wealthy’s influence in politics in the past, has received contributions from at least 30 billionaires over the course of her political career, the New York Post found.

Silicon Valley and California’s wealthiest tech billionaires are bankrolling Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) effort to allow India and China to monopolize the United States’ green card system.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) declared on Tuesday that “billionaires should not exist” as part of the rollout of his massive proposal to redistribute wealth in America via an “extreme wealth” tax, which he claims will “reduce the outrageous level of inequality that exists in America today.”

People do not deserve to be billionaires, according to presidential candidates Beto O’Rourke (D) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who made the remarks during an interview with the New York Times.

Executives from the country’s largest tech conglomerates, the big business lobby, and multinational corporations are demanding Congress pass the latest Democrat plan giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

The pro-mass-immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor-class organizations is fighting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda ahead of the 2020 election with amnesty and free trade absolutism efforts.

“Red for Ed,” a nationwide campaign of teachers’ strikes, will continue this Thursday in Oakland, California, as the Oakland Education Association (OEA) plans to strike against the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Bay Area public radio station KQED reported Saturday: “Teachers

Progressive Democrats admit in their newly-unveiled Green New Deal outline that the resources of every billionaire and company would not cover the proposal’s cost. 

Despite their opposition to President Trump’s economic nationalist, “America First” agenda, the pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor class organizations has had continued access to the White House.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Monday that a world that allows billionaires is immoral. 

The billionaire class — the country’s top 0.01 percent of earners — have enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as America’s working and middle class since 1979, new wage data reveals.

Mark Zuckerberg has lost more money in 2018 than any of the top billionaires in the world, after Facebook suffered a devastating year. His losses for the year are estimated at $19 billion.

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers say ending welfare-dependent immigration to the United States would do “serious harm” to the nation and be a “serious mistake.” 

Liberal billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and others, are donating hundred of millions of dollars in hopes of helping Democrats beat pro-gun Republicans in the coming mid-term elections.

MOSCOW (AP) — An associate of Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich confirmed Monday that the Russian billionaire’s British visa has not been renewed. Abramovich was noticeably absent from the stands when Chelsea won England’s FA Cup final at Wembley this weekend.

The pro-cheap, foreign labor organization New American Economy, funded by billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg, is behind the year-end push on Capitol Hill to give amnesty to potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens in the United States.

Billionaires Rupert Murdoch and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have come out strong for an amnesty plan that could grant U.S. citizenship to more than three million illegal aliens and their family members.

16 of the world’s richest billionaires have investments in space exploration, according to a new report from Bloomberg Technology.

“You know I love having the support of real billionaires,” Hillary Clinton says, during a speech in Florida.

The Ricketts family, which spent $5.5 million earlier this year on a negative advertising campaign to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination, will now spend $1 million in an effort to boost Trump’s efforts in the general election.

Forbes released it’s annual list of the world’s billionaires and it shows that America is increasingly becoming a nation of self-made elite. Since Forbes started keeping track in 1984, the number of completely self-made billionaires (who grew from little wealth)

Michael Jordan joined the billionaire club in 2015 thanks to an unintended assist from the much maligned former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

The combined wealth of America’s 537 billionaires would not be enough to fund the nation’s budget for even a single year.

A new report finds that the number of billionaires in the world leapt by 222 last year to 2,089, with a combined total $6.7 trillion in wealth–a sum that represents roughly one-third of America’s $18,099,042,237,252.89 national debt.

In a wide-ranging interview with AARP Magazine, Bob Dylan offered his thoughts on his new album of Frank Sinatra covers, happiness, and the state of industry in America.