In the late 1990s, the internet created thousands of millionaires — and a handful of billionaires — in Silicon Valley. The entrepreneurs who rode the wave early and bailed out before it crashed in the early aughts suddenly found themselves in an …

Billionaires get a lot of attention for their outsize campaign contributions: According to ProPublica, Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, spent at least $98 million during the 2012 election cycle. And Charles and David Koch are reportedly spending …

Watch an online exclusive from senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown's interview with Darrell West, author of the new book, “Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust.” Darrell West, the vice president and director of Governance Studies at The …

Much of the record campaign money pouring into this midterm election cycle comes from a relatively small number of donors. Darrell West, author of "Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust," joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the enormous political …

It was surfers versus a Silicon Valley tech billionaire, and on Wednesday, the surfers won — for now. A San Mateo County judge ruled tentatively Wednesday that Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, had wrongly denied public access to Martin …

The highest ever number of billionaires in Norway's history was revealed in Kapital's list of the country's 400 richest people who all had wealth in excess of half a billion kroner. Topping the list was Norwegian John Fredriksen who is said to be worth …

WASHINGTON — As the Democratic Party works to hold control of the U.S. Senate for the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency, a key strategy for November's elections seeks to tie Republican challengers to policies advocated by billionaire donors …

Pharma is on a roll. More than a fifth of the 100 richest billionaires in India have pharma and health care riches, among them half of the eight newcomers, such as Hasmukh Chudgar, whose Intas Pharmaceuticals was recently valued by Temasek at close to …

The number of Greeks entering billionaire-status is on the climb, a study finds, despite the growing impoverishment of the country's masses. According to an annual report published by the WEALTH- X Agency, compiled with the assistance of UBS Swiss Bank …