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Offline rangerrebew

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NY lost 9 billionaires this year — here’s how their absence is bad news for every New Yorker
Story by Georgia Worrell • 1d


The Big Apple’s billionaires are hemorrhaging cash.

Nine New York-based billionaires fell off this year’s Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans — and 18 have dropped off in the past five years.

Of those who didn’t make it back onto this year’s list, one died – investor Jim Simons – and the rest saw declining fortunes.

Fortress Investment Group Chairman Wesley Edens saw his net worth plummet to $2.7 billion this year from $3.9 billion in 2023, knocking him out of the top 400.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ny-lost-9-billionaires-this-year-here-s-how-their-absence-is-bad-news-for-every-new-yorker/ar-AA1tMYFC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=eff8be280c4d4b43af84f023723158a0&ei=63
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Billionaires' unproductive deployment of capital is not the same as billionaires and their companies repatriating to another state.

Many of those NYC billionaires are linked to pirate equity, vulture capital, and hedge funds.  If their hedge funds bet against a rising stock market, they made losing bets.
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I don’t know why but when I read the headline I thought it was about billionaires wising up and moving out :shrug:

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I don’t know why but when I read the headline I thought it was about billionaires wising up and moving out :shrug:
Apparently a couple have...

I wonder how those ESG and DEI portfolios are doing? :whistle:
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