Sentences with phrase «by billionaires»

Unless you are financed by a billionaire this is how most squads should be built.

Any money we spend won't be offset by a billionaire so we have to be more balanced with how we spend it.

The firm has links to Trump's former chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and is partially - owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.

Last year, the SEC failed to approve a high - profile bitcoin ETF backed by billionaire investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Gutting of school funding by billionaire backed political hacks like Walker can be extremely upsetting to teachers who devote their lives to helping children.

The partnership brings together Amazon, the online retail giant known for disrupting major industries; Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company led by the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett; and JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States by assets.

Tesla Motors, the electric car company run by billionaire Elon Musk, said its first - quarter revenue grew by more than 50 %.

Other big oil companies including Phillips 66 also own refineries small enough to be eligible for a waiver, as does CVR Energy which is owned by billionaire investor and Trump ally Carl Icahn.

«One of the keys to selling tax reform is the president making the point that tax reform will unrig this economy by stripping out the special - interest deductions and carve - outs that riddle this code,» said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers that is spending heavily to push changes to the tax code.

An investment fund controlled by billionaire George Soros has acquired a once high - flying enterprise technology company.

West Virginia is the latest front in a national battle to undermine worker rights bankrolled by the billionaire Koch brothers.

The stock has surged 41 % since President Donald Trump's November election, surprising many who predicted the company led by billionaire Elon Musk would suffer under a Republican government averse to supporting clean - energy companies with federal tax subsidies.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The $ 26 billion investment fund founded by billionaire George Soros is preparing to dive into cryptocurrency trading, even though Soros himself previously described them as a «bubble,» according to reports.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

As I detail in my book Hoosier School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public schools.

ALBANY — The ugly split among Democrats in the state Senate got even uglier this week, courtesy of comments by a billionaire hedge fund executive who has helped bankroll one of the sides in the nearly decade - long fight.

Necker Island is an 74 - acre private island owned by billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, located in the northeast of the British Virgin Islands.

Since 1972, the company has been part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett.

The Los Angeles museum founded by billionaire Eli Broad said it acquired Mark Bradford's «Helter Skelter I» — the painting inspired by serial killer Charles Manson that retired tennis pro John McEnroe sold at auction last week.

Not to be outdone, a «platform» released by the Movement for Black Lives (a group of organizations organized by Black Lives Matter) issued a scorched - earth condemnation of every aspect of the reform agenda, which it characterized as «a systematic attack... coordinated by an international education privatization agenda, bankrolled by billionaire philanthropists... and aided by the departments of education at the federal, state, and local level.»

Headed by billionaire Robert Bigelow, the company plans to operate private, inflatable space stations and has orbited a couple of scaled - down prototypes already.

Under the current regulations and bankrolled by billionaire owner Roman Abramovich, Wenger feels Chelsea — whom his side face in west London tomorrow — can remain at the top.

Nowadays, the top donor to Ryan's leadership PAC is Elliot Management, a hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer.

A Greenpeace airship today flew over the secretive Rancho Mirage polluter strategy meeting hosted by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries.

He was followed by Police Commissioner Howard Safir, who was ordered by the city to repay $ 7,000 for an all - expenses trip to the Oscars on a private jet owned by billionaire Ron Perelman.

Of course the West London side were bought by a billionaire in Roman Abramovich, and have spent money like no end, but our club is not owned by poor people, and our income is up there with the best in Europe.

MEXICO CITY Mexico's landmark wholesale national mobile network launched this week, but without a single major wireless carrier on board, renewing debate about how best to increase competition in the telecom sector dominated by billionaire Carlos Slim.

A firm that specialises in what it calls «behavioural microtargeting», Cambridge Analytica was created by billionaire Robert Mercer and former Trump associate Steve Bannon, who became its vice-president.

Bill Lipton, state director of the progressive Working Families Party, on Monday called Cuomo's refusal to push for a unified Democratic conference «a stark reminder that despite his accomplishments, he remains deeply committed to a fiscal policy and agenda supported by his billionaire donors at the expense of working families.»

It was rebuffed by the political network overseen by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, to which the Mercers were major donors.

Here's an example of one of their executive summaries, based on the book written by Billionaire Charlies Koch.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan through a spokesman on Friday called the racially tinged comments by billionaire donor Daniel Loeb aimed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins «clearly inappropriate.»

The Ed Miliband camp is keen to point out that it has fewer resources than David's well - funded campaign, backed in part by the billionaire David Sainsbury.

«We're employed by a billionaire who's panicking at the idea of a change of government and who wants to spend big to make sure that doesn't happen.»

Leading New York dealers Pace, Michael Werner, David Zwirner and Skarstedt all opened spaces in the Mayfair area last year, attracted by billionaire collectors such as Roman Abramovich, Victor Pinchuk and Lily Safra, who own properties in the U.K. capital.

The fireworks seen at Mar - a-Lago on New Year's Eve were paid for by billionaire industrialist David Koch, according to the Palm Beach Daily...

The source of Faraday's obviously substantial funding has been a mystery, but that's finally coming into focus this week, too: the company has announced a strategic partnership with Chinese media firm LeTV, headed by billionaire Jia Yueting, who Forbes has reported to be the primary investor in the company's new $ 1 billion, 3 million - square - foot factory.

In the United States, sustainability initiatives are bankrolled by billionaires such as Tom Steyer, not by Main Street.

McMorris Rodgers signed a 2012 pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group funded by billionaire David Koch, promising that she would oppose any federal climate - related legislation that would raise revenue for the federal government, including a carbon tax.

He's a national figure in libertarian circles when it comes to charter schools, and spoke last June about the push to expand charter schools at an annual retreat held by the billionaire Koch brothers, according to a copy of the retreat ’s

The whole thing is run by its billionaire founder Jia, who acts (1) as the head of Silicon Valley's auto startup Faraday Future, (2) as a major investor in Silicon Valley's auto startup Lucid Motors and (3) as the head of LeEco, which itself has a startup car brand based out of China and assisted in a «strategic partnership» with Faraday Future.

It is majority - owned by the Brazilian private - equity firm 3G Capital, led by the billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann.

Lucio Fontana's egg - shaped painting sold by billionaire Steven A. Cohen fetched $ 29.2 million Tuesday evening, one of the top three lots auctioned at Christie's where bidders showed restraint for overpriced works.