The market capitalization for Bitcoin has exceeded $1 billion so people are asking: What's next? We can see the growth pattern for adoption of this ...
Tory Burch, the fashion designer who popularized $200 ballet flats, is officially a billionaire. The 46-year-old designer added nine zeros to her ...
Billionaires could be a dying breed in the United States--but not so in China. The country saw a 20 percent increase in the number of households with ...
If today's rich have shown unusual talent, it's mostly been a talent for rigging the rules in their own favor. So let's take a quick look at ten billionaires and some things they probably don't want you to know about them.
The first pictures showing the interior of what is believed to be the world's most expensive residence have been made public in Vanity Fair magazine. ...
CANBERRA, Australia -- An Australian billionaire said Monday he'll build a high-tech replica of the Titanic at a Chinese shipyard and its maiden voyag...
Bloomberg's daily identification of the top billionaires could reinforce a trend where these individuals, and many others, allocate a growing portion of their wealth in a manner that helps society as a whole.
In the middle of a speech in which he demanded an end to teacher tenure, retired billionaire Rex Sinquefield unleashed the following bombshell: The K...
Millions of Americans have lost their homes as a result of the foreclosure crisis. But not until now has one of those stories involved what author Mic...
VIENNA - Billionaire investor George Soros thinks a country will eventually exit the euro zone and urged policymakers on Sunday to come up with a ...
OSLO - The chances of positively resolving Europe's serious debt problems are decreasing from day to day as authorities focus on "buying more time...
I was walking in Beijing when a woman called out, "Pretty girl, are you single?" She worked for a company called the Golden Bachelor Dating Agency, which finds matches for "high-caliber men."
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Oil barons Charles and David Koch held their annual billionaires' summit in Palm Springs on Sunday, Na...
When I first divorced, I, like most people, was overwhelmed with financial crises. With two houses to support (my ex's and mine), our expenses had do...
Most of us want to be physically fit, but very few of us are. The same holds true with financial security. As my father (and many others) used to say, "A lot of people want to go to heaven but no one wants to die to get there."
You could almost hear Meg Whitman's campaign coming off the rails the day she became "tough as nails" on undocumented immigrants.
Even the best-intentioned best-directed private donations are a way for moneyed people to work their will on the public, while the rest of us have nothing but the vote.
Big developments in the past few days make it clear why California has the biggest races in the country this year, with Obama helping Barbara Boxer defend her Senate seat and Jerry Brown trying for a record third term as governor.
Not every day a billionaire fulfills a 'pact with God,' but that's what Albert Gubay says he's doing by donating most of his fortunes from running a B...
Bel-Air author Justine Musk is blogging about the financial details of her divorce from Elon Musk, the Paypal co-founder who is behind the Tesla elec...
The reality behind Meg Whitman, as we see from her attempts to avoid a primary contest and duck debates and the press, is much different than her facade.
NEW YORK (AP)- The Democrat trying to unseat popular billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg lobbed multiple attacks at him during their first debate Tues...
On election night, Thompson stirringly repeated the refrain, "Eight is enough!", "Eight is enough!" We have a chance to win our city back.
A New York-based model has accused an Ecuadorian billionaire businessman and politician of luring her to Ecuador and forcing her to have sex with him,...
Throughout his endless (though interesting) profile of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, New Yorker scribe Lawrence Wright provides example after examp...
