Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we’ve rolled almost everything back into the company.
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Lately there has been a lot of talk about secret societies, new world order and illuminati all through out the internet. What are your thoughts, is this just speculation or is there some truth to it?
Here, Hal Lindsey discusses the Billionaires CLub: Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey Warren Buffet, George Soros, and Michael Bloomberg
Bill Gates outlines plan to cap global population…
(Population Control)
Good willed philanthropist?
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You know things are good when you can’t find anything else to do with your money but to give it all away lol. With Bill Gates and Warren Buffett pledging to give their fortunes away, website bookies are betting which billionaire will jump in with the growing billionaire give away; check it out:
Bookmaker.com is inviting punters to place a bet on which wealthy individuals will join Gates, Buffett and other Forbes 400 billionaires in pledging half their fortune to charitable causes. According to a spokesperson for the gambling website, the bookies “calculated these odds by analyzing media reports and expert opinions being published lately on the topic.”
You can see the odds here if you fancy trying your luck. As of August 16th, hedge funder John Paulson, financier Carl Icahn and philanthropist George Soros are listed as the most likely billionaires to join Gates and co. Among the least likely, according to Bookmaker.com’s calculations: trader Paul Tudor Jones II, investor David Tepper and hedge fund head Bruce Kovner.
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Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are setting the bar on how the wealthy should give charitable contributions. Gates and Buffet are urging the super wealthy to follow in their footsteps and give at least half their wealth away during their lifetime or at death. To the average person this may seem ridicules, but when you really think about it if a person who is worth 4 billion dollars gave away 2 billion it would not constitute a lifestyle change for them. Someone who is worth 2 billion more than likely has the same quality of life as someone worth 4 billion; when I looked at things from this perspective I could really understand why Gates and Buffett may ask others to pledge most of their wealth to charity.
On the other hand, Forbes.com throws a curve ball to this concept of the two moguls giving their wealth away, stating that it will actually hinder the economy rather than help; check it out:
In its latest issue, Fortune magazine reports that “Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett are asking the nation’s billionaires to pledge at least half their net worth to charity, in their lifetime or at death.” Gates told Fortune that 50% of one’s wealth would constitute the “low bar” for giving, while Buffett has pledged to give 99% of his wealth away.
At first glance this is something to celebrate, for it rightly confirms that capitalism is, at its core, quite compassionate. The charitable ways of Gates and Buffett also provide living proof that the “trickle-down theory” is in fact reality.
And when we consider that the greedy hand of government will help itself to half of Gates’ and Buffett’s money upon death anyway, the idea of them depriving our federal masters while supporting good causes becomes even more appealing.
But while it’s exciting to contemplate the giving nature of Gates and Buffett, if their true desire is to help their fellow man, they should hoard every penny of their significant wealth. For the two richest men in the U.S. to monetize their wealth in order to support charities is for them to oversee the conversion of production goods to consumption goods. Some will no doubt benefit in the near term, but the removal of limited capital from the productive parts of the economy will ultimately reduce our standard of living, drive up unemployment and make individuals more as opposed to less needful of charity. Read More Here
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Bill Gates on The Daily Show with John Stewart. Discuss his retirement from Microsoft and his new role as head of the Gates Foundation, check it out.
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“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates
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In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Bill Gates
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Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. One topic of discussion that stuck out like a sore thumb was education and the lack of balance between those of high income vs. those of low income. Check out what he had to say at the 8:40 mark.
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