After the efforts of Steve Forbes, he finally agreed with zhukeda on the specific time of the interview.
Well, the interview will be conducted the day before the publication of the new Forbes rich list.
Interview date, as scheduled!
Interview begins~
Steve Forbes, the head of Forbes group, interviewed Zhuke in person.
"Let me say something extra first. As the head of Forbes, did you interview me in person this time because my personal wealth has increased greatly this year?"
Zhuke took the lead in asking.
Steve Forbes was stunned, but still nodded and said, "yes. Last year, your personal wealth ranked 27 in the United States and 53 in the world. Compared with last year, your personal wealth has increased greatly this year. "
"Before the list comes out, can you tell me directly?" chucker said with a smile
"No!"
Steve's answer was unusually straightforward.
Smell speech, Zhu Ke hands a spread, made a very helpless expression: "well, I can't persuade you, but, later interview you have to be polite."
Zucker is also afraid of Steve asking about sensitive topics.
In particular, international political issues have always been the focus of Zhu Ke's taboo.
Only make money, not politics!
ââThis is the rule pursued by Zhuke.
Steve said with a smile: "then I would like to ask you, do you have a certain understanding of the world's rich families?"
Zucker: of course
At present, Zhuke is not ambiguous, and directly says the names of many well-known rich families.
Walton family behind Wal Mart, Mars family behind Mars group, Koch family behind Koch industry, Werther Heimer family behind Chanel, Anheuser family behind Budweiser InBev, Li family behind Sun Hung Kai Real Estate in Xiangjiang
Zhuke said more than 20 names in a row, each of which is a super rich family.
Now it is!
In 2020, too!
And the wealth will double a lot. For example, the Walton family ranked the first, whose family wealth directly climbed to nearly 200 billion US dollars;
The Mars family behind the Mars group is not much worse, with assets as high as $130 billion;
The Koch family behind Koch industry is also the owner of more than 120 billion US dollars.
"Then the question is
"Just in the past, the two houses of Congress once again launched a large-scale discussion on the tax on the rich. What do you think of it?"
Steve is very cunning to put forward the issue of "rich tax".
Jack immediately pointed to Steve and said, "man, the first question is so hot. Do you think I'm not going to die fast enough?"
Since the 1950s, the tax collection point and tax rate of the rich have been the focus of many rich people's attention and debate.
"You know, Mr. Wald. With the slowdown of global economic development and the continuous trade war between big powers, people are increasingly worried about the global economy falling into recession. For example, the covant family, the major shareholder of BMW, lost $6.7 billion in just two years. "
Steve Forbes said.
But even so, as far as I know, the daily income of these rich families is still amazing, so the huge wealth gap has become the focus of many people's attention
"The discussion of the tax on the rich has intensified."
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In fact, Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic Party of America's presidential candidates in 2020, will take the tax on the rich as one of the core of her campaign.
"In the future, a 2 per cent tax will be imposed on the rich who have more than $50 million in wealth," she said; For those with more than $1 billion in wealth, a 3% rich tax will be imposed. "
What is the rich tax?
To put it bluntly, the government forces the rich to cut their flesh.
Yes, it's compulsory, whether you agree or not.
However, her policy is not popular in the United States. Private property is sacrosanct.
After some pondering, Zucker replied: "as far as I know, since the beginning of the last century, more than 20 European countries have previously imposed taxes on the rich, but most countries, including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, have finally abolished taxes on the rich."
"Why cancel?"
"Because this barbaric, compulsory and almost robbery style of meat cutting can not solve the problem of wealth inequality, but will bring many new problems..."
In a word, Zucker does not support the so-called rich tax.
Want to cut the meat?
Of course, Jack won't agree!
Similarly, the vast majority of the rich people in the United States will not accept that whoever dares to open his eyes to this topic is the enemy, and the enemy will never die!
......
Over the next few days, Steve Forbes asked a number of questions again.
"What do you think of the Internet under the current situation?"
Steve heard.
Zhuke replied: "the current Internet situation is relatively severe on the whole. First, the Internet bubble in early 2000, and 911 recent events, during which Internet Co and technology companies fell in batches.
"However, I always insist that the dawn of the Internet will come soon!"
From Internet to finance;
From finance to real estate;
Including hotel, food, retail, entertainment media, medicine and other aspects, Zhuke and Steve Forbes have launched a lot of discussions.
This interview should be the longest one that Zhuke has been interviewed since he crossed the border.
Finally, towards the end.
Steve asked, "Mr. ward, tomorrow is the day when Forbes magazine's rich list will be published. Have you made any predictions about your personal status?"
Zucker shrugged and said with a smile, "as much as it should be."
Smell speech, Steve laughed, also did not say much.
......
The next day.
The annual Forbes rich list is officially released!
[list of the 400 richest people in the United States]
No.1: Bill Gates;
Bill Gates, who once again topped Forbes magazine's global rich list this year, has become the world's richest man for the eighth consecutive year.
Total personal wealth: 58.7 billion US dollars.
Don't feel a lot
You know, before the dotcom bubble burst in 1999, Bill Gate's personal wealth amounted to $about 120000000000.
The recent 9 / 11 incident has also seriously reduced Bill Gates' personal wealth, otherwise it will definitely exceed $70 billion.
No.2: Warren Buffett;
Warren Buffett, known as the "God of stocks", with Berkshire Hathaway's shareholding and investment in various industries, this year's total personal wealth disclosed is as high as US $32.3 billion.
No.3: Paul Allen;
As the second largest shareholder of Microsoft, it has a total personal wealth of US $30.4 billion.
NO.4: Larry Ellison;
As the chairman of Oracle, his personal wealth in November 2001 amounted to 26 billion US dollars.
Three of the top four in the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States are Internet tycoons.
Forbes said: in the form of global Internet stocks and technology stocks plummeting, many rich people who used to make their wealth soar by virtue of the sharp rise of science and technology stocks have lost their wealth with the explosion of science and technology stocks, evaporating tens of billions of yuan of value.
For example, sun Zhengyi, the founder of Softbank, had a personal wealth of $76 billion at the beginning of last year, but it is only worth $5.6 billion this year.
The decline of personal wealth is appalling.
No.5: Zucker Wald;
you 're right!
In November 2001, the fifth person on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States was Zhuke.
The total value of personal wealth disclosed is as high as 22.8 billion US dollars!
When the list comes out, everything is quiet!
"The third watch" is here.