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Angelina Jolie Named World's Most Powerful Celebrity By Forbes

AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie has dethroned Oprah Winfrey as the world's most powerful celebrity, according to Forbes. The actress grabbed the No. ...

Berlusconi Faces 'Divorce With Nine Zeros'

Times Online | Posted 06.08.2009 | World


The highest financial stakes in Silvio Berlusconi's divorce are over the inheritance of his business empire, and how it is split between the two child...

America's Most Reputable Companies

Forbes | Klaus Kneale | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business


Would you recommend that a friend buy medicine from Johnson & Johnson? Insurance from AIG? Do you trust Google? These are the kinds of questions peop...

Forbes To Sell Brother

Alan Farnham | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media


Alan Farnham

In a further sign of worsening conditions in the magazine industry, Forbes LLC announced it would be selling one of the company's namesake brothers.

Alexander Lebedev To Sue Forbes For Defamation Over Ex-Billionaires List

The Guardian | Tom Parfitt | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media


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...

El Chapo, Mexican Drug Lord, Makes Forbes' Billionaire List

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 04.13.2009 | World


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...

Steve Forbes: There Should Be Outrage At CEO Pay (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business


On CBS Thursday morning, Steve Forbes commented on whether there is something wrong when, in 2006, for example, the average CEO made as much in a sing...

Jason Linkins

Forbes Credits NYT's MoDo With Liberalism, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media


Forbes Magazine has assembled this list of "The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media," and somehow or another, Maureen Dowd of the New York ...

Unknown Billionaires: Forbes' Richest People You've Never Heard Of

Forbes | Andrew Farrell | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business


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...

Is the U.S a Banana Republic?

Michael Pento | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics


Michael Pento

The two hallmarks of a banana republic are very high rates of inflation coupled with substantial government controls over the economy, which lead to high rates of unemployment and poverty.

The Billioniare Bloggers

Forbes | Devon Pendleton | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business


When the SEC charged Internet billionaire Mark Cuban with insider trading on Nov. 17, the brash mogul's followers knew where to look for the best comm...

Forbes Magazine Turns To Steve Forbes For Calm During Financial Storm

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 11.27.2008 | Media


On Oct. 10, Forbes magazine employees anxiously arrived at work. The previous afternoon, a Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average had closed below...

Biggest Loser: Bill Gates Loses $1.5 Billion As Buffett Becomes US Richest

Reuters | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business


Warren Buffett has overtaken Bill Gates to become the richest American in the Forbes 400 list, Bloomberg said, citing a recalculated list to be publis...

Wall Street Credit Crash Threatens To Tank U.S. Auto Industry

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home


Diane Tucker

"Every job lost on Wall Street impacts two-to-three jobs on the outside. By comparison, every job lost at an auto plant impacts nearly 10 jobs on the outside... We don't want to know what happens if the domestic auto industry gets away from us."

Charles Ergen: Meet America's Richest Media Mogul You've Never Heard Of

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media


The Forbes 400, Forbes' annual list of the 400 richest Americans, was released this week — and Forbes.com conveniently broke the list down by in...

Chicago Ranked Most Stressful City

Forbes | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago


Chicago is America's most stressful city, according to Forbes magazine, which recently placed us ahead of New York on their list of the most stressful...

Top Russian Oligarchs: Who Are These Rich Men? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business


We browsed through the Forbes list of billionaires to find the richest Russians and found a lot of metal magnates and the occasional unsavory characte...

Snooping On The Rich Via Helicopter

The Wealth Report | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


A couple of years ago, Forbes magazine came out with a list of top billionaire homes. What was remarkable was the aerial photos of mansions owned by ...

Lenny Dykstra Makes His Own Stock Picks, Says Pro Who Helps Him

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


Richard Suttmeier, a Wall Street vet accused by Forbes of doing baseball vet-turned-stockpicker Lenny Dykstra's work for him, offers up a lengthy resp...

Fake Steve Jobs Gets Real New Job

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business


Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'l...

The Celebrity 100: Forbes Ranks The Powerful

ForbesT | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment


It is the year of the tween. Coming off a massive concert tour, a hit 3-D movie--and a risqué picture in Vanity Fair--pop star Miley Cyrus (aka Hanna...

How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsene...

Wal-Mart Gives The New Yorker (And Forbes, Fortune, BizWeek etc) The Boot

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Good luck getting your hands on Adam Gopnik's latest treatise next time you visit your local Wal-Mart (WMT). The world's biggest retailer is pulling C...

Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Filling the Coffers of Democratic Candidates

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Dan Treul

Fortune mag's 50 most powerful women in business have given overwhelmingly to Democratic candidates, with Clinton hauling in the most cash.