Castles in France. Islands in the Caribbean. With a collective $1.27 trillion at their disposal, the members of The Forbes 400 could buy almost anything.
How about a country? A quick glance at the CIA...
Forbes magazine has announced that Tiger Woods is the first athlete to surpass $1 billion in earnings and endorsement money.
The magazine estimates that golf's top-ranked player crested the plateau when he earned $10 million...
Forbes says that the most expensive zip code for 2009 is 07620, Alpine, New Jersey.
The tiny New Jersey town ranked No. 1 with a median price of $4.14 million for one of its luxurious...
Tokyo is the world's most expensive city, according to Mercer's 2009 Worldwide Cost of Living survey released today, with the cost of living up 13.1% from 2008.
Japan's capital is followed by Osaka and Moscow,...
Forbes reports that Sotheby's is offering a 1,500-year-old biblical document that includes layers of text and meaning–in three languages.
Known as the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, the piece was written over the span of three centuries...
No. 1 on Forbes' list, for the second year in a row, is Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
He is worth $30 billion, $5 billion less than last year, as a result of double-digit declines in...
For most of the decade, Russian billionaires spent hundreds of millions of dollars on boats, jets, expensive art and the occasional football team.
But, despite strained bank accounts and public outrage, the tycoons have been...
The American national business magazine, Forbes, compiled and published the list of billionaires including the world's wealthiest people as of the first quarter 2009, based on each person's total net worth.
Bad news for rich...
