T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter “Oracle of Oil,” hedge fund founder and philanthropist who rewrote the playbook for corporate raiders, has died. He was 91. He died Wednesday of natural causes. Pickens had been in declining health, suffering from a series of strokes and a serious fall in 2017. In late 2017, he put his
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Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 Source: Lamborghini Fans of the famous flux capacitor in 1985 movie “Back to the Future” will love the new Lamborghini. The Italian automaker unveiled its fastest car ever Tuesday morning at the Frankfurt Motor Show — a geometric fantasy of speed and engineering called the Sian FKP37. It is the company’s
Source: TCS World Travel There’s luxury travel and then there’s super-luxury travel. And by any measure, touring the world on a specially outfitted private jet with 15 to 50 like-minded passengers, all on the same financial playing field, falls into the “ultra-luxe” category. For well-to-do, worldly travelers with destinations and experiences still on their bucket
As U.S. colleges and universities brace for a drop in high-paying Chinese students this fall, one university has discovered a potential hedge: insurance. The University of Illinois’s Gies College of Business and its Grainer College of Engineering took out an insurance policy two years ago to protect the schools from a possible drop in revenue
The National Football League was on the brink last year. Not of death, but of the type of loss of relevance that has humbled baseball and boxing over the past generation or so. Now as the NFL’s 100th season kicks off this week, there’s a sense of fresh energy. But if football’s going to make
Lamborghini Sián Source: Lamborghini Ahead of its official Frankfurt Auto show debut, Lamborghini has revealed the Sian, the Italian supercar maker’s first hybrid vehicle. Sian means flash of lightning in the Sant’Agata automaker’s Bolognese Italian dialect — an apt name for a car that’s also the company’s most powerful creation. The Sian’s heart is the
Bugatti Chiron Source: Bugatti Bugatti became the first car maker to top 300 mph, when a modified version of its hypercar hit 304.77 mph. A Bugatti Chiron, adapted for higher speeds and driven by Andy Wallace, hit the top speed on Volkwagen‘s Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany on Aug. 2. It is the first supercar
Summer’s coming to a close, and that means the streaming wars are about to get a lot more real. Apple released a trailer for “The Morning Show,” one of the big series slated to hit its Apple TV+ service this fall. Disney just gave us more details behind its slate of shows for the Disney+
An Automobili Lamborghini SpA Aventador vehicle sits on display during the Gallery event at the MGM Grand Detroit ahead of the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Jan. 12, 2019. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The rich have cut their spending on everything from homes to jewelry, sparking fears of a
The Chartwell Estate Photograph by Jim Bartsch, courtesy of the Estate of Jerry Perenchio This elegant French chateau-style estate in Bel Air, California, which recently got a $50 million price chop, is the most expensive residence currently for sale in America. And CNBC is the first to get an exclusive look inside the $195 million