Internet billionaire Nick Hanauer says that he made his money off "a good intuition about what will happen in the future." But his crystal ball increasingly scares him: "So what do I see in our future today? I see pitchforks. Angry mobs with pitchforks …

U.S. billionaires are increasingly using their wealth to champion causes at the polls. California hedge-fund founder Tom Steyer successfully backed a 2012 measure to close a corporate tax loophole, while Susan Buffett, daughter of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Hidden Billionaires. While Brazil's pharmaceutical industry isn't known as a hotbed of innovation — Sanchez invests about half as much as Pfizer in research and development as a percentage of revenues – – it hasn't stopped drug copycats such as …

The news that German Metro AG is selling its wholesale operations and real estate portfolio in Vietnam to Beri Jucker (BJC) owned by Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi for US$879 million has met with mixed reviews. Many leading market analysts …

The billionaire space industry investors prefer going to the large space labs, like the Jet Propulsion lab, to see how spacecraft are being built and meet with the lead scientist or engineers on the projects and discuss their own research. Paul Allen …

While an ever-increasing number of school leavers are going to university, these British billionaires prove that a degree isn't the key to financial success. There are more than 100 billionaires living in Britain, with a combined wealth of more than …

The cast includes: Nikolai Tolstykh, the soccer union's head; Putin's close friend Vladimir Yakunin, who runs Russia's state railroad monopoly; billionaires Sergei Galitsky, founder of the Magnit grocery store empire, and Suleiman Kerimov, with …

The Forbes billionaires list, a small group that controls 3 percent of global household wealth and whose total net worth amounts to about 9 percent of world GDP, highlights this issue. Female billionaires make up only about 10 percent of the total …

The report – “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama's EPA” – is 92 pages. It looks at, “An elite group of left wing millionaires and billionaires, which this report refers to as the 'Billionaire's …