Billionaire Alexander Nesis made a fortune from gold, silver and banking. His next target: producing rare-earth metals from material discarded as Russia developed an atomic bomb in the 1940s. Nesis's ICT holding company is in a venture with state-owned …

A third of China's 100 richest billionaires have more than one child, with eight having managed to sneak in under the net with broods of three or four. Only one fifth, 21 out of 100, have stuck to the one child rule according to Forbes, while nearly a …

New York hedge-fund billionaire Republicans Paul Singer, a major Romney supporter in 2012, and Daniel Loeb are funding a new Human Rights Campaign initiative to further LGBT rights internationally, reports NYT columnist Frank Bruni, who spoke with …

While it assures you that you will lack nothing in life, it also seems to place an extra burden of social responsibility on your shoulders. Understandable of course – when you are the daughter of a billionaire who has a doting father and a fortune to …

It gets even more revolting when we realize that the financial billionaires who are profiting so handsomely from the recovery are the very same who took down the economy in the first place. They were the ones who created and pedaled the toxic …

WASHINGTON (VOR)— According to the latest Forbes list of the world's richest, more and more non-Westerners are making it into the most elite bracket: the billionaires. For years, the U.S., Germany and Japan were the clear leaders in the ability of …

Politico's Alex Burns and Maggie Haberman have designated 2013 as “Year of the Liberal Billionaire,” as progressive titans like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer unload their money bags on TV ads in off-year elections. “Their arrival on the political …

EU Trade Deal: Canada sells out to European billionaires. (MSN) — A European Union analysis of the just-completed trade agreement with Canada suggests the EU gained more than it expected — and might have settled for less had Ottawa pushed harder.

It simply isn't productive to have billionaires using the Giving Pledge as a claim to moral superiority over each other. If Icahn genuinely was interested in persuading Gross to join, why not call him on the phone or send him a nice note rather than …