Last summer, David De Jong caught wind of Gunther Quandt, a German industrialist and Nazi, who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW. De Jong wasn't interested in Gunther so much, as his sons Hareld and Herbert. They went on to inherit …

Tea Party. Protesters at a Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Rob Chandanais / Flickr)To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, there is no such thing as the Tea Party. There is only a collection of individual billionaires. Back in 2009 and 2010 …

Four decades ago, Nasa's Launch Complex 39A was at the centre of the Cold War race to the Moon. Now the mothballed launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which dispatched Neil Armstrong and his crew on their historic Apollo 11 mission in …

Some myths, no matter how false, persist. Many still believe that President Obama was born in Kenya, that immunizations cause autism, or that Bigfoot stalks hikers. And others, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, still believe in trickle …

Forbes List of Top 10 American Billionaires. September 16, 2013 (AP). By The Associated Press. Associated Press. The top 10 people on this year's Forbes 400 list are: — Bill Gates, $72 billion. — Warren Buffett, $58.5 billion. — Larry Ellison, $41 …

The stabbing of one of China's richest men outside his home must have jolted not just the Mainland's growing army of millionaires and billionaires, but also the rich here in Hong Kong. Local tycoons are no strangers to kidnapping and Li Ka-shing's …

In May of 2013, the Pew Charitable Trusts released a report that sounded a frightening alarm. Titled “Retirement Security Across Generations” and widely cited throughout the national media, the study found that a lack of retirement savings, less …

Best of the Weekend's Papers: Chinese female billionaires, Christie's hammers China sale, how much does tax evasion cost? Monday, 30th September 2013. Half of the world's self-made female billionaires hail from China, Christie's cashes in on its …

Mike Novogratz. FORTUNE — Mike Novogratz and the other principals of hedge fund Fortress Investment Group (FIG) became instant billionaires when the company went public in 2007. Like many other uber-rich on Wall Street, their wealth, some of it …