Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk
January 2019
Who is more dangerous: El Chapo or Carlos Slim?
Michael Massing
While attention focuses on a mafia boss on trial in Brooklyn, the billionaire heads a power elite preserving inequality in Mexico
June 2017
The billionaire and the airport: could his last act in Mexico City ruin Carlos Slim?
In what is likely his last great urban intervention, the billionaire is constructing a massive new airport. The $13.4bn project is highly complex and controversial – can he pull it off?
January 2017
Carlos Slim on Trump's border wall plans: 'The best wall is investment'
Mexican billionaire praises US president as ‘great negotiator’ but calls for development and employment rather than barrier
October 2016
Greenslade
Donald Trump as president 'would be a threat to press freedom'
US group that campaigns to protect journalists takes ‘unprecedented step’ of accusing Republican candidate of ‘betraying first amendment values’
December 2015
Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
Diego Enrique Osorno faced hundreds of interview refusals as he spent eight years writing the most comprehensive Slim biography yet: ‘I learned you have to proceed calmly in the land of power’
Carlos Slim on Zuckerberg plan: world needs jobs, not giveaways
Mexican billionaire says his own charitable projects do not involve donating his shares – ‘foundations do not solve poverty, we need to create companies’
Givers that keep on giving: the world's top philanthropists
Mark Zuckerberg has joined a club of charitable billionaires who have given away large amounts of their money. We take a look at some of them
January 2015
Carlos Slim becomes largest individual New York Times shareholder
World’s richest man exercises warrants in paper’s parent company, acquiring 15.9m shares in $101.1m purchase to bring his holding to 16.8% of class A stock
October 2014
Datablog
World's richest man would take 220 years to spend his wealth
Amazon to hire 1,000 UK distribution staff
August 2014
Observer dispatch
Fast cars and fiestas as a poor Galician village welcomes home its millionaires
Ashifa Kassam: The population of the poor Galician settlement once fled their home to find work; but they never forgot it. Now it has become a summer home to some of Spain's richest emigrés
July 2014
A UK recovery that works for the rich
A three-day work week will make the rich richer and the rest of us poorer
Molly Osberg
The working week: cutting back on hours has many advantages
Business blog
Would Carlos Slim's three-day working week actually be workable?
Business blog
Carlos Slim may be right to call for three-day working week
Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of life
January 2014
The 85 richest people in the world: men still in the driving seat
Women need only seven seats, mostly on the bottom deck, on the £1tn double-decker bus revealed by Oxfam this week
