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Billionaires are constantly making money using their money, and it often includes lending (or some convoluted scheme that includes lending as an intermediary step).
They borrow themselves as a way of dodging US taxes, which might be what you're thinking of.
Holding bonds is the obvious way all of these people would probably be doing the sin of riba. It's not necessarily public information, though. (And you can invest in bonds too; there's no secret money glitch, just a societal lottery that someone will inevitably win)