Last week saw the start of a new kind of competition. The criteria: who can provide the freshest and most comprehensive billionaire list. The long-...
Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.12.2012
On Wednesday, Forbes released its annual World's Billionaires list -- one of the most anticipated rankings of the year. According to Forbes, there ...
Posted 03.08.2012
Forbes published their annual World's Billionaires list on Wednesday, which broke records for the largest number of billionaires (1,226) ever include...
Posted 03.09.2012
Forbes released their 2012 list of the world's billionaires Wednesday, and 18 Illinois residents made the list. The roundup includes self-made bus...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.08.2012
WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital has just one billionaire, according to Forbes' new list of the richest people in the world. (Cue evil laughing.) D....
Huffington Post | Ashley Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
Forbes published their annual Billionaires List on Wednesday, comprised of the 1,210 wealthiest people on the planet, totaling a net worth of $4.5 tri...
Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011
For billionaires, suffering a massive loss of wealth probably has a different effect than for, say, a millionaire's. But in relative terms, the glob...
nbcnewyork.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Michael Bloomberg keeps raking it in. The third-term mayor and finance whiz is the 23rd richest man in the world, according to the 2010 Forbes ...
The Guardian | Tom Parfitt | Posted 05.25.2011
Alexander Lebedev, the Russian businessman and media owner, has said he will sue Forbes magazine for reporting that he lost $2.5bn (£1.8bn) in the gl...
AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Who says crime doesn't pay? A suspected drug lord who is Mexico's most-wanted fugitive made the Forbes list of billionaires on Wed...
Forbes | Andrew Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011
When you think of the richest people in the world, the name Riley Bechtel probably doesn't come to mind. It should. Bechtel is a member of the exclus...
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 03.14.2012