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Before Mark Cuban built billion-dollar companies, a splurge did not involve a steakhouse reservation or a tasting menu. It meant a hot dog. The Cost Plus Drugs co-founder and billionaire entrepreneur pushed back at critics on X in 2024 after musician John Rich suggested Cuban had become disconnected from everyday Americans. Rich wrote that Cuban had not bought groceries or pumped gas in decades and said only someone out of touch would make certain comments about retail investors. Cuban responded

According to Cuban, one of the great lies in life is ‘follow your passions.’ Mar 9, 2026 Kevin O’Leary and Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is a billionaire. An investor in a broad variety of companies. An entrepreneur trying to dramatically change the pharmaceutical industry. But he was also a bartender. A dance instructor. A garbage bag salesman. Along the way, Cuban was willing to do almost anything. Except follow his passions. As Cuban says, “One of the great lies of life is ‘follow your passions.’

Anyone who invested $1 in Microsoft when it became a stock market company would have seen a return of 423,908 per cent compared with a 2,705 per cent gain by the S&P 500 over the same period, in an extraordinary corporate journey that started with two high school friends in Seattle falling in love with computers. Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who met when they were teenagers, founded Microsoft in 1975 and developed a condensed version of the BASIC programming language for the personal computer. The

Crypto’s richest mogul has ridden a rebound in Binance’s valuation—and friends in high places—to his highest net worth ever.

Updated Mar 11, 2026, 12:14 PM GMT Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has seen his wealth drop $12 billion so far in 2026. MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images Only two of the world's 10 richest people have grown their fortunes this year as AI concerns mount. Oracle's Larry Ellison has taken a $47 billion hit, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos is down $15 billion. Elon Musk and Jim Walton have bucked the trend thanks to the soaring value of their key holdings. All but two of the world's 10 wealthiest people

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) trades at $495.71, down 1.22% YTD with 90.3% 5-year returns. Occidental Petroleum (OXY) is up 30.42% YTD to $53.62, cut debt by $5.8B to $15.0B, and raised its dividend 8% to $0.26.

He retired as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO, handing letter-writing to his successor—after setting a standard some aspire to meet

Jose Atiles is an associate professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of Illinois, a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project and the author of the forthcoming book, Islands of Exception: Law, Empire, and Offshore Finance in The Caribbean, and Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico. March 11, 2026, 6:05 AM ET Where—and how—do you do your taxes? Getty Images Tax apps such as Monaeo, TaxBird, and TaxDay operate quietly in the background of

Naina Subberwal Batra is CEO of AVPN, a network of social investors in Asia. March 8, 2026, 4:00 PM ET The United Nations faces a deepening liquidity crisis. Secretary-General António Guterres has warned of an “imminent financial collapse” as the international body confronts $1.6 billion in unpaid dues and billions more in peacekeeping arrears. The UN isn’t about to shut down, but its capacity to operate and coordinate global actions is going to erode. As the United Nations inevitably trims its

The conflict in the Middle East could divert new capital to Hong Kong due to the city’s stability and regulatory certainty, the treasury minister has said, while pledging to keep markets operating smoothly amid energy price shocks caused by the war in…

Updated Mar 14, 2026, 1:42 PM GMT Directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are two of the billionaires who have won Oscars. Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images These 12 billionaires are also Oscar winners. Some are the famous filmmakers behind some of the most commercially successful movie franchises. Others are billionaires who have accumulated their wealth through other avenues. When thinking about Oscar winners, NFL team owners and computer-science researchers might not immediately come

El Paso businessman Paul Foster's wealth increases, moving him higher on 2026 Forbes list of world's 3,428 billionaires.

Forbes' newly released 40th-annual World’s Billionaires list features at least a dozen people whose close ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come to light in recent weeks.

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The former CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, has become the latest billionaire to ditch California for Texas ahead of the liberal state's proposed wealth tax.

Billionaire wealth and political clout has exploded in the Trump era, while millions of Americans continue to struggle with their finances. With voters heading to the polls this year, billionaire money is flooding U.S. politics. More Americans should be asking who America's democracy serves.

"Stop trying to make bubbles go away." Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Some of the wealthiest business people in the world are chopping it up about something that defies orthodoxy: the AI bubble, they hope, will soon collapse. Gone are the days of debating whether AI is an economic bubble. Having already fallen $800 billion short of turning a profit on the AI boom, some of the tech industry’s biggest players have accepted that the financial arithmetic on AI just

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is no stranger to singling out the richest of the rich. Along with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Sanders recently introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, a 5 percent annual wealth tax on anyone in the US worth over a billion dollars.

March 15, 2026, 7:33 AM ET After a grueling 25 hours of debate on the House floor, complete with an almost show-stopping filibuster effort of more than 81 amendments by Republicans to stop the bill from moving forward, Washington made history this week with the passage of a millionaires tax bill, which would create the first income tax in the state’s history. On March 9, lawmakers passed a 9.9% tax on personal income above $1 million per year—a first for the income-taxless state. The final vote

Hours after House Democrats passed a proposed income tax on millionaires, one of Washington’s most high-profile businessmen announced that he’s left the state.

The ultra-rich are fleeing Britain. Monaco? Dubai? The Caymans? They’re reading Tatler from all of them, so we know exactly what each offers. But which tax haven is right for you? Let us show you the way…