Russian billionaires have a new order from Russian President Vladimir Putin: pay your taxes. With a wave of Western sanctions over the annexation of Crimea about to hit, Putin has called on billionaires to pay taxes at home. The Russian president met …

March 19 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg View's Margaret Carlson discusses billionaires slip of the tongues on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg). – Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg.

It's official. Sheryl Sandberg is now a billionaire. With an estimated $1.05 billion wealth, Facebook's chief operating officer makes her first appearance on Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires. Sandberg, who published her first …

Of course Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is right to point out that "bossy," the other B-word, is often used to discourage girls — and later women — from becoming leaders. "Words like bossy send a message: don't raise your hand or …

Wyoming's billionaire population is an outlier compared with big-money hubs in the nation. None of the known billionaires in the state are true-blue Wyomingites or entrepreneurs who forged their fortunes in the state, said Dan Alexander, the …

When Forbes formulated its recent list of the world's billionaires, it found that several Anheuser-Busch InBev stakeholders were among a dozen of what the publication calls the richest "booze billionaires." At. No. 1 on Forbes' booze billionaires list …

Eight newcomers to the FORBES World Billionaires list just gave a whole new meaning to the American Dream. Originally from countries like Ukraine, Taiwan and Vietnam, they join the ranks of the wealthiest in the U.S. for the first time. Although they …

Carlos Slim Helú lost his spot atop our world billionaires list this year, but the Mexican telecom magnate is still the richest in Latin America — by $52.3 billion. There are 114 billionaires in Latin America worth a total of $440 billion. Slim's $72 …

Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a "mystery billionaire" has bought what the Guinness Book of World Records says is the most valuable life insurance policy in history: A pact that will pay his survivors a cool $201 million. Guinness officials said the …