Universities are turning into real-estate hedge funds — and students are paying the price

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Billionaire donors have warped the university's priorities from providing an effective education to steering profit-generating ventures.

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China rebuffs billionaire investor Mark Mobius's warning that the government made it harder to get money out, report says

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Mark Mobius.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is bracing for a brutal recession - and says he was blindsided by the market chaos last year

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Marc Benioff.

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Billionaire Marc Andreessen warns we're headed to a world where a college degree costs $1 million and a flatscreen TV costs $100

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Marc Andreessen says prices for education, health care, and housing are "going to the moon."

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Meet the Wertheimers, the secretive French brothers worth $96 billion who control Chanel, own vineyards in France and Napa Valley, and breed racehorses

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The brothers have a combined net worth of $96 billion.

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'I can't get my money out': Billionaire investor Mark Mobius says China is restricting flows of capital out of the country

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sounds the alarm on recession - with shades of the dot-com crash and financial crisis

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Marc Benioff.

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48 hours after he was crowned the world's richest person, Elon Musk loses top spot — again

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Elon Musk is now the world's second-richest person, per Bloomberg.

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See inside the luxury bunkers where the super-rich reportedly plan to save themselves from a future apocalypse

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The world's ultra-rich lost about $14 trillion of their wealth in 2022, Knight Frank study shows

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Even the ultra-rich had a bad year in 2022.

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