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Get lost, rich jerk: French tycoons in war of words over the rich tax

The tycoon stakeholder of French newspaper Liberation is defending his paper's stinging criticism of another tycoon: Europe's richest man, Bernard Arnault, who is seeking citizenship in Belgium, where taxes are lower. Edouard de Rothschild said his paper's controversial headline Monday that told Arnault — who's worth an estimated $41 billion — to "Get lost, rich jerk" amounted to a "beautiful marketing operation." It's t...
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