Last week, at a glittering private hall in Manhattan steps from the East River, billionaires and socialites gathered for what one attendee called the “geekiest” event of the season: the Chaos Ball, the fundraiser for the National Museum of Mathematics …

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told an audience of Iowa voters on Sunday that billionaires aren't going to decide who will be the next Senator from Iowa. Warren traveled to Iowa this weekend to stump for Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), who is running …

Each year Forbes releases a report of the wealthiest individuals in the world, also known as their “Billionaires List”. After a careful analysis of the world's richest, the Forbes team culminates a ranking based on criteria of net worth, any and all …

The average net worth of billionaires who dropped out of college, $9.4 billion, is approximately triple that of billionaires with Ph.D.s, $3.2 billion. Even if one removes Bill Gates, who left Harvard University and is now worth $66.0 billion, college …

The 10 billionaires, not all named, are selected based on lower stock turnover, assets under management and their three-year stock performance. They're taken from an initial list, composed of 20 billionaires in the Forbes 400, who made their money via …

For the ranks of the world's billionaires, the last year has proven rich indeed. The population of the ultra-rich club grew by 7 percent from June 2013 through June 2014, reaching an all-time high of 2,325 individuals, according to the second annual …

More billionaires went to the University of Pennsylvania for their undergraduate degrees than any other college in the world, according to a new report from Wealth-X. 25 current billionaires received their bachelor's degrees at Penn, the most of any …

The aggregate wealth of the world's 1,570 billionaires is around $6.3 trillion, according to Forbes. That's enough to build five versions of the One World Trade Center in each of the 50 states. You could also buy two pairs of Google Glass for every …

Lord Ashcroft, right, committed to spending millions when he began his marginal polls. Photo: Getty. This post was originally published on May2015.com – our new home for news on the general election. Broadly speaking, we have two ways of looking ahead …