We are conducting a live investigation into who might be the world's richest person. The idea is that none of the existing rich lists could capture such a person because they rely heavily on metrics that are easier to confirm. Each of our candidates so far explain a bit more how the world really works, where this powerful resource is pooled and being used in strange and unexpected (and sometimes dastardly) ways.
As results were tallied up on the night of the the 2020 presidential elections, one high roller was floating a whopping $2.5 billion worth of bets that Donald Trump would lose, according to our sources. He was betting against two counterparties.
Even with Trump refusing to concede and threatening
Forbes Magazine in September listed Changpeng Zhao, a.k.a. CZ, the Chinese-born founder and CEO of crypto-trading exchange Binance, as the 22nd richest person in Singapore, a tiny island nation of 5.5 million people. The magazine put the wealth of CZ, as he’s known, at $1.9
Imagine a distant island part of a crescent-shaped archipelago. Atop a hill
there sits an enormous pink palace with dozens of rooms, gardens and a heliport.
Everyday the household staff wake up to maintain the property, cleaning rooms
and dusting off the Louis XIV furniture. The hedges are trimmed. Seasons
