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The Forbes 400

Pandemic be damned:

America’s 400 richest people

are wealthier than ever, up

a collective 8%. Last year’s

threshold for entry

($2.1 billion) holds, and

even in these trying times,

new mega-fortunes are

still being minted.

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The Barons of

Casino Capitalism

“Democratizing finance” is

trading app Robinhood’s stated

goal, but its founders have

become billionaires by leading

a new generation of rubes right

into the jaws of Wall Street’s

most notorious sharks.

By Jeff Kauflin, Antoine Gara

and Sergei Klebnikov

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Biotech’s Barnum

And His Covid Cures

Billionaire medical-marketing

maestro Patrick Soon-Shiong

believes his drug therapies

could defeat what he calls

“the crisis of our time.”

By Alex Knapp

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The Rise and Rise

Of Tyler Perry

From homeless playwright to

billionaire: How the likely

future member of The Forbes

400 wrote his own story,

changing Hollywood forever.

By Madeline Berg

OCTOBER 2020