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Forbes 400

At the Billionaire's House

J.E. Fishman | Posted 05.04.2013 | Business
J.E. Fishman

For about a year, I was invited occasionally into a tennis game at his estate. Never mind how that came about. The billionaire made it clear, without quite coming out and saying so, that I wasn't there for my opinions on anything. I was there to fill out a foursome.

Meet The Billionaire You've Probably Never Heard Of

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2013 | Business

By Sarah Morris MADRID, March 4 (Reuters) - Spain's Amancio Ortega, elevated by Forbes to become the third richest person in the world...

Radical Reform of the Tax System Is Urgently Needed

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Allan Brawley

Is what I am proposing pretty radical and does it face an uphill battle in Congress? Absolutely. But the stakes are enormous for the country and nickel-and-dime tinkering with the tax system will not fix the problem.

Inheritance Taxes Need to Be Raised Substantially

Allan Brawley | Posted 02.09.2013 | Home
Allan Brawley

It is noteworthy that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are proposing increases in the estate tax. As always, the latter are putting forth their usual lame arguments for lowering or eliminating it.

2012's Most Powerful Leaders

Posted 12.05.2012 | World

By Chris Michaud NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) - When it comes to power, politics trumps business, according to a new Forbes ranking on We...

Paul Blumenthal

Billionaires Give Record Amount In Presidential Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 11.05.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- More than half of the nation's 400 richest citizens have contributed money to help elect President Barack Obama or former Massachusetts ...

LOOK: Florida's 32 Richest Residents

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 09.21.2012 | Miami

Forbes magazine released its annual list of the country's 400 wealthiest people this week, and as usual there are plenty of Sunshine Staters represent...

Richest Self-Made Women In America

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.20.2012 | Small Business

Women have helped build some of the biggest companies in America, and they have the bank accounts to show for it. A look at some of the nation's femal...

How Next-Gen Rich Kids Will Change Philanthropy

Posted 11.18.2012 | Impact

The next generation of inherited or self-made wealth is being scrutinized and pressured to give bigger, earlier and more efficiently than ever before....

Dukes Puts 'Em Up Again

Martha Burk | Posted 12.28.2011 | Business
Martha Burk

Remember Dukes v. Walmart, the case that the Supreme Court threw out because the company claimed it was too big to be sued for sex discrimination. Well, like Freddy Krueger every Halloween, it's ba-a-a-ck.

PHOTOS: Coloradans Who Made The 400 Billionaires List

Posted 11.26.2011 | Denver

For the first time in the list's nearly 30 year history, all 400 people listed on the Forbes 400 list are billionaires making a cumulative sum about e...

PHOTOS: The Ten Wealthiest Locals (& Their Net Worths)

Carly Schwartz | Posted 11.23.2011 | San Francisco

On the cusp of the 2008 financial collapse, San Francisco magazine dared to pose the question, "Recession? What recession?" Their front page story dur...

Forbes 400: Meet America's Richest Women (And Not Just Oprah And Meg)

Forbes Women | Posted 11.23.2011 | Women

Of the 400 richest Americans on this year’s list, released this week, just 42 are women, a number that hasn’t changed since last year’s list. Of...

The New Age Of Inherited Wealth

WSJ | Robert Frank | Posted 11.22.2011 | Business

By Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal The release of the latest Forbes 400 List of Americans is, once again, being billed as a triumph of self...

The Ten Richest People In America

Daily Finance | Posted 11.21.2011 | Business

Despite the stalled economy, the nation's wealthiest are worth a combined $1.53 trillion, nearly equivalent to the GDP of our neighbor Canada. Their t...

Wisconsin Billionaire Charged With Sexual Assault Of A Child

Caledonia, WI Patch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Samuel Curtis Johnson III was formally charged today, March 24, with repeated sexual assault of a child. A judge released him on a $500,000 cash bond ...

Tea, Taxation and Tyranny

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mark Olmsted

In O'Reilly's obnoxious Super Bowl interview with Obama, Bill asked contemptuously if the president was a "wealth redistributionist." Between interru...

Wall Street Brings Class War to America?

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Les Leopold

Oh, how the super-rich hate the sound of "class struggle." Dare to utter the words and they'll reach for their red-baiting paint guns and spray you silly with invective. It's un-American. It's socialistic. It's an insult to democracy.

Jay-Z & Warren Buffett Talk Shop On Giving Back

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

For the upcoming issue of Forbes magazine, Jay-Z and Warren Buffett sat down to lunch with Steve Forbes to talk money - and philanthropy. The two fina...

American Billionaires Got Richer, America Got Poorer

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

The richest Americans got even richer this year, according to the new Forbes 400 list, even as the country's total net worth tanked during the second ...

Bloomberg OUSTED As NY's Richest Man

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Michael Bloomberg may be the Mayor, but he's no longer the richest man in New York. That honor goes to oil billionaire David Koch, known now as the m...

The Problem With Billionaire Philanthropists

David Callahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
David Callahan

Philanthropy is vital to fill the gaps in a fraying government safety net, especially in hard times. But it can also bankroll sharply ideological groups or large-scale efforts to revamp public policy.

Billionaires Who've Lost BIG: 10 Titans Who've Watched Their Net Worth Plummet (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

Nike's Phil Knight Is No Revolutionary

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Jim Keady

Nike's founder topped the Forbes 400 Revolutionaries list. What Forbes failed to mention is that Knight grew his fortune on the backs of the abject poor.

The Forbes 400 Shows Why Our Nation Is Falling Apart

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Les Leopold

Collectively, the Forbes 400 have $1.57 trillion in wealth. It's hard to get your mind around a number like that. So let's imagine that it was available for the public good. What does $1.57 trillion buy?