Every year FORBES crunches the numbers to find out which Americans rank the richest–and each year it gets harder to join the exclusive Forbes 400 list. But you don't have to inherit a fortune to become a Forbes 400 billionaire. In fact, the majority of …

In the Windy City's crop of uber-rich, nearly half of Chicago's billionaires have one thing in common: The name "Pritzker." Heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and those in their extended family dominate the list of Chicago's billionaires, according to …

Harvard Business Review: What do billionaires have in common? What is it that they do better than anyone else? Why do we admire them, or their companies' products and services, so much? I've spent some time trying to identify common traits in the …

In the Windy City's crop of uber-rich, nearly half of Chicago's billionaires have one thing in common: The name "Pritzker." Heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and those in their extended family dominate the list of Chicago's billionaires, according to …

Mark Zuckerberg's former roommate helped him start Facebook. His roughly 5% stake comprises the bulk of his fortune; the rise in the company's stock price since September 2012 helped boost his net worth by $2.5 billion. Moskowitz is engaged to former …

DO YOU PEOPLE, YOU PEOPLE, DO YOU LOOK UP TO THESE BILLIONAIRES', OR DO YOU RESENT THEM? >> I CERTAINLY DON'T RESENT THEM BUT THERE ARE MANY IN THE OCCUPY WALL STREET WHO DOES RESENT THE SUCCESS, AND …

Half of the world's female billionaires who made their own fortunes are Chinese. That's according to a global ranking of women executives released today (Sept. 17). In the Hurun Report's list of rich and powerful women (link in Chinese) of the year, 14 …

Three Irish billionaires are officially in the money after making the esteemed Forbes Rich List for 2013. Denis O'Brien, Dermot Desmond and Martin Naughton are all included on the listings of the world's richest people. O'Brien, who owns the Digicel …

Ever wonder why the very rich pay so little in gift and estate taxes, which are intended in part to prevent dynastic wealth from hobbling economic growth? Bloomberg's Zachary R. Mider had an excellent piece last Thursday that used the Waltons—heirs to …