MOSCOW (Reuters) - The world outside may be in the thralls of crisis, with house prices plunging, markets slumping and banks collapsing; but Russia's ...
Telegraph | Adrian Blomfield | Posted 10.04.2008 | Business
For the first time in Russia's history, over 100 youngsters stand to inherit more than $1 billion from the country's burgeoning ranks of oligarchs. A...
The Wealth Report | Posted 10.03.2008 | Business
Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, is a master of the form and has developed her own signature specialty. She wraps her thank-y...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business
The new tool to crush the opposition is funded by a new menace, that of capitalism built on a phenomenal wealth in commodities and oil.
John K. Wilson | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home
A short list of questions for anyone confused about whether they might be a big-time out-of-touch moneybags politician!
ZP Heller | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
The point of creating McCain's Mansions was to illustrate the Grand Canyon-sized chasm between McCain's elitist world and the economically-crippled one in which the majority of us struggle to live.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business
Florida has clinched the nation's No. 2 spot for millionaires. According to new wealth stats released by the I.R.S. Florida had 199,000 residents wit...
The Wealth Report | Posted 09.14.2008 | Business
The Wealth Report takes a look at the recent reported purchase of the French Riviera Villa Leopolda for $750 million by an unnamed Russian. The blog e...
The Wealth Report | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business
I've written before about Myspace for Millionaires sites such as asmallworld and Diamond Lounge. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Asmallworld...
TimesOnline, Fox News | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business
A mysterious Russian billionaire has made an unprecedented splash in the real estate market along the French Riviera this week, buying the Villa Leopo...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
I have to assume if you're reading this that you're sick of the Olympics already. Wow, that was fast. Is NBC's coverage going to be twice as bad as ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business
**UPDATE** The "I Am Rich" app has been removed from the app store. Silicon Alley Insider has more. ** While many of the apps in Apple's (AAPL) iPho...
Dealbreaker | John Carney | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
Is it just noblesse oblige? Have the masters of the universe simply decided to start sacrificing for the good of the country? Perhaps but Gasparino t...
The Wealth Report | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
In U.S. cities, when the wealthy want to expand their homes, they usually build up and out. Witness all the giant glass penthouses, roof gardens and d...
Linda Hansen | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home
John and Cindy McCain made roughly $6.5 million last year. Of that $6.5 million, $23,000 came from social security. That's right, the millionaire McCains draw steadily on a system he says is disgracefully broken.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
There no sense of decency among the rich and their enablers in the government and in politics, and in the chattering classes who worship before the altar of market fundamentalism.
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 ...
Dave Johnson | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
So far this week, in the unfolding story of Atria Senior Living, Bermuda-based (HA!) buyout firm Lazard and the really, really rich guy at the top of ...
Jay Mandle | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Should the Mayor of New York or the Governor of New Jersey be able to overwhelm their opponents with vast personal fortunes? Justice Alito in effect says, "yes."
The Wealth Report | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
There's a lot confusing information out there about how the next president will tax the rich. But one chart boils it all down. It comes courtesy of th...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
What is the point of microfinancing the poor build up small businesses if it is only to eventually provide wealthy, Western-owned businesses and individuals with even a larger share of the world's wealth?
Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business
A new Superyachting Index shows that the top end of the yachting market is still holding firm - at least for now. The index, which is compiled by The...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Without all that money and newly leased Mercedes, people did not know how to define themselves anymore. Unless, that is, they were actually real people inside them to begin with.
Reuters Via CNBC | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business
Wealth held by rich investors with assets over $1 million is set to grow 50 percent in the next five years to $75 trillion, according to a report publ...
CNN/Money | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years, according to a re...
Reuters | Posted 10.31.2008 | Business