Personal Wealth

Official Net Worth: McCain $36.4 Million, Obama $799,000

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics


Mark Nickolas

One of the clumsy arguments the McCain camp tried to make in hopes of slowing down the media freight train over not knowing how many homes he owns was that Obama is also a rich guy who lives in a mansion himself.

World Now Has 10 Million Millionaires

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club. The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets pa...

Bear Stearns Staff Face Reality Of Buyout

Reuters | Chris Reiter | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business


Employees at Bear Stearns Cos were hardly celebrating the day after JPMorgan Chase & Co raised its bid for Bear five-fold. Instead, resignation, bitt...

Sam Stein

Romney Dumped $35 Million Into Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney loaned his campaign a total of more than $35 million in 2007, according to the most recent filings of ca...

Clements: Being Super-Rich Is Overrated

Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Clements | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Great wealth is overrated. Whenever my kids swoon over a palatial home or a passing Ferrari, it always bugs the heck out of me. Before long, I am on ...