As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — had never been richer, flush with big gains from frothy stock markets.
If you’re linking to a paywalled site like bloomberg, could you please provide the text in the post, or link to a archive.org copy? All I know about this is the title and the first paragraph of the article. Frustrating.
Some places don’t like people to do that. I’m normally somewhat against it, since I do think it’s important for journalists to get paid, but in this case:
The MSN link actually does in some sense make sure that they get paid. I don’t actually know all the details but I am assuming that this involves in some way money going from sketchy people who buy internet ads, to Microsoft, to the journalists’ corporate overlords, eventually in theory to the journalists, so actually in some weird way it is fitting the requirement.
If you’re linking to a paywalled site like bloomberg, could you please provide the text in the post, or link to a archive.org copy? All I know about this is the title and the first paragraph of the article. Frustrating.
You can search for the headline plus “msn” and almost always find it:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/billionaires-at-trump-s-swearing-in-have-since-lost-209-billion/ar-AA1ADH6d
Some places don’t like people to do that. I’m normally somewhat against it, since I do think it’s important for journalists to get paid, but in this case: