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Bill Gates, one of the richest men on the planet, said he is giving $20 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this month, adding that "rather than returning the foundation's budget to...
The Case for Population Reduction: Miscellaneous papers of David Pimentel. Collection of papers, reprints, and other publications on population control and related issues. Cornell University. Hopfenberg, Russell. "Genetic feedback and human population regulation". (PDF) Human Ecology 37.5 (2009): 643-651.
Bill Gates is charitable, influential, powerful and wealthy almost beyond compare — but he didn’t get there by making one-off end-of-year promises to clean up his financial act over the next ...
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
Bill Gates said his ideal tax system would slash his net worth by 62% or about $100 billion, but still reward entrepreneurs.
[38] [39] More recently, the so-called "Rajan hypothesis" [40] posited that income inequality was at the basis of the explosion of the 2008 financial crisis. [41] The reason is that rising inequality caused people on low and middle incomes, particularly in the US, to increase their debt to keep up their consumption levels with that of richer ...
On July 22, 2010, the most recent Wall Street reform bill, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, was signed by President of the United States Barack Obama, following the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
As a founder of Breakthrough Energy, Gates has dedicated substantial resources to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 – a goal the company describes as "the most difficult challenge humanity ...