Billionaire Wishes He Was Billionaire-er

Forbes's popular billionaires issue is out and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is number 26 on the list—but he'd really, really like to have a higher ranking.

The 0.1 Percent

Chrystia Freeland has talked to a lot of billionaires over the last two decades, and now has a new book out about the 0.1 percent.

12 Percent of Billionaires Are Virgos

On February 15, a 10-ton meteor entered the atmosphere at 33,000 miles per hour and exploded in the sky over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk with a force 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

Since Buying This Election Didn’t Work, Will Big Business Give Up on Buying Elections?

NOPE, argues Robert Reich: “You see, if and when they eventually win, these billionaires will clean up. Their taxes will plummet, many of laws constraining their profits (such environmental laws preventing the Koch brothers from more depredations, and the anti-bribery Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that Adelson is being investigated for violating) will disappear, and what’s left of labor unions will no longer intrude on their bottom lines. And they have enough dough to keep betting until they eventually win. That’s what it means to be a billionaire political investor: You’re able to keep playing the odds until you get the golden ring.”