John Hyatt is a staff writer who covers billionaires with a focus on money in politics. He joined Forbes in 2020 and has written about everything from Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign to a Tanzanian billionaire’s agribusiness dreams. His 2021 investigation on a Chinese
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