published Aug 24, 2017, 5:32:16 PM, by Brendan Coffey and Jack Witzig (Bloomberg) —The equity  rally propelling global asset values higher this year is once again turning China into the world’s fastest-growing wealth machine. The fortunes of the 40 Chinese billionaires on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index have surged 46.8 percent since

published Aug 4th 2016, 4:30 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that $400 million in cash airlifted to Iran in January didn’t represent a ransom payment to secure the freedom of four detained Americans released the same day, and wasn’t a secret. “We were completely