Asked to name the smartest person he’s ever met, Elon Musk had a quick response: “Larry Ellison is very smart. I would say he is one of the smartest.” Now, Ellison is also the richest person Musk has ever met, after he briefly surpassed him this week to top the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. On Wednesday,

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By John Adams

“Whatever you make of his grotesque politics, his execrable human rights record and his lamentable physical condition, Kim Jong Un is one of the most brilliantly successful national leaders in the world,” said Richard Lloyd Parry in The Times. When he succeeded his late father as head of the hermit kingdom in 2011, plenty of