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Kim Kardashian West may soon be the real billionaire in the Kardashian-Jenner family. After inking a $200 million deal with Coty for a 20 percent stake in her beauty business KKW, the 39-year-old reality star and wife of musical artist Kanye West is now just an air kiss away from being a billionaire, according to …

There were 57 fewer billionaires on the planet at the end of last year than there were a year earlier, as the global stock market rout stripped the world’s wealthiest people of a collective $388bn (£302bn). It is the first time that billionaires’ wealth has fallen since the 2008 global financial crisis. According to a …

Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2019 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia. I’ve slowed this visualization down to four seconds per year to make it easier to absorb the annual changes, and have …